Cut pipeline cost: seg-reuse, unified bf16 knob, eager mimalloc purge

Three optimizations from profiling the cross-check-dominated pipeline
(9700X CPU, all pilot-validated on TestImage3/FixImage1):

- Reuse the cross-check HR-matting@2048 forward as the segmentation mask
  (cross_check.reuse_as_seg, default ON; --no-cross-check-as-seg to opt
  out). Skips the BiRefNet@1024 load+forward entirely: ~66s -> ~45s,
  one less 0.9GB model. Trimap 99.8% identical, no structural change.

- --precision bf16 now fans out to all three models: ViTMatte keeps its
  weight cast; both BiRefNets run their forward under autocast with a
  dispatcher-level AutocastCPU fp32 shim for torchvision::deform_conv2d
  (no bf16 CPU kernel, no autocast wrapper upstream). Shared hardware
  gate in bgfilter/precision.py falls back to fp32 off native-bf16
  hardware. TestImage3: 51.9s -> 33.1s; alpha diff max 0.15, none >0.25.

- MIMALLOC_PURGE_DELAY=0 (bgfilter/__init__.py, before torch loads):
  Windows torch's bundled mimalloc lazily retains ~10GB of freed
  BiRefNet activations, stacking under ViTMatte's attention peak.
  2048x2048 bf16: peak 25.2 -> 21.4GB and slightly faster (73 -> 63s).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

bgfilter/cli.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def main(
     config: Path | None = typer.Option(None, "--config", exists=True, file_okay=True, dir_okay=False),
     model_name: str | None = typer.Option(None, "--model-name"),
     device: str | None = typer.Option(None, "--device"),
-    precision: str | None = typer.Option(None, "--precision", help="ViTMatte precision: fp32 (default) | bf16 (halves matting activation memory; needs bf16-capable hardware, else falls back to fp32)"),
+    precision: str | None = typer.Option(None, "--precision", help="Compute precision for all models (ViTMatte cast + BiRefNet autocast): fp32 (default) | bf16 (faster + halves matting activation memory; needs bf16-capable hardware, else falls back to fp32)"),
     screen_color: str | None = typer.Option(None, "--screen-color", help="Background colour prior as #RRGGBB (default: auto-detect the flat background colour)"),
     matting_method: str | None = typer.Option(None, "--matting-method"),
     fallback_to_chroma_alpha: bool | None = typer.Option(None, "--fallback-to-chroma-alpha/--no-fallback-to-chroma-alpha"),
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ def main(
     fg_safe_radius_ratio: float | None = typer.Option(None, "--fg-safe-radius-ratio", min=0.0),
     despill: bool | None = typer.Option(None, "--despill/--no-despill"),
     cross_check: bool | None = typer.Option(None, "--cross-check/--no-cross-check", help="Second-opinion veto of background-hued residue between hair strands (default: on; costs one extra model inference)"),
+    cross_check_as_seg: bool | None = typer.Option(None, "--cross-check-as-seg/--no-cross-check-as-seg", help="Reuse the cross-check forward as the segmentation mask, skipping the primary seg model (default: on; saves ~20s on CPU; needs cross-check on)"),
     trimap_mode: str | None = typer.Option(None, "--trimap-mode", help="Trimap mode (segmentation pipeline): directional | seg | directional-hard-bg"),
     seg_backend: str | None = typer.Option(None, "--seg-backend", help="Segmentation backend: birefnet (default) | anime-seg"),
 ) -> None:
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ def main(
             fg_safe_radius_ratio=fg_safe_radius_ratio,
             despill=despill,
             cross_check=cross_check,
+            cross_check_as_seg=cross_check_as_seg,
             trimap_mode=trimap_mode,
             seg_backend=seg_backend,
         )