perf: release execution after queuing superblock seals

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What changed

• Release the checkpoint barrier after snapshot creation and successful seal enqueue while the appender seals and rotates asynchronously.
• Carry seal completion through the append stream and wait for the prior rotation only before taking the next superblock snapshot.
• Publish the successor cursor during rotation and increase the independently bounded appender queue to 2,048 entries.

Closes #80

Impact

Normal superblock boundaries no longer enqueue or wait for an additional Sync. Appender FIFO ordering keeps later ledger events in the successor superblock, while explicit shutdown, replay, replication, bootstrap, reset, and retention durability fences remain unchanged.

Keeper::finalize_superblock and SuperblockAccessor::append now return the durable rotation completion receiver. Persistence and replication wire formats are unchanged.

Reviewer notes

The Superblock event is queued while the checkpoint barrier is held. Its completion is sent only after the durable seal, file and index finalization, successor rotation, and cursor publication; the pacemaker retains that completion solely to prevent a later checkpoint from reusing a stale ledger head.

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Superblock sealing now uses asynchronous completion acknowledgements. The appender sends an acknowledgement after durable sealing and rotation, and broadcasts the successor at offset zero. Keeper finalization returns the completion receiver. The pacemaker releases execution after queueing seal work and awaits the previous seal before queueing the next one. Appender and reader queues now use capacities of 2,048 and 128. Recovery and integration tests were updated for the new event and completion flow.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes implement the linked issue objectives for asynchronous sealing, FIFO rotation, queue sizing, durability, and completion contracts.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All code, documentation, and test changes support the linked issue objectives and contain no unrelated scope.
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Description check	✅ Passed	The description accurately summarizes asynchronous superblock sealing, queue changes, completion handling, and preserved durability fences.
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In `@keeper/src/tests/recovery.rs`:
- Around line 13-17: Update seal_and_archive to register the archive-completion
receiver before calling finalize_superblock, then await that receiver after
finalization completes so the notification cannot be missed. Revise the helper’s
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