Feat(Compiler): Implement Release Mode IR (strip debug symbols/spans)

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Summary

Provide a mechanism to compile the Continuum World into a "Release" IR. This mode should strip all non-causal metadata to minimize memory footprint and maximize execution performance for large-scale simulations.

Tasks

• Gated Spans: Use feature flags (e.g., debug-spans) to conditionally include Span information in IR structs.
• Minified Identifiers: Replace human-readable SignalId strings with minimal numeric handles in release builds.
• Metadata Stripping: Remove documentation, hint strings, and validation metadata from the compiled IR.
• Runtime Optimization: Ensure the Runtime can operate in a mode where it doesn't store name-to-index mappings for signals unless required.
• Compiler Flag: Add a --release flag to world-run and the compiler API to toggle this behavior.

Related

Epic #225