Add VnAssetsSession for persistent model lifecycle

- Extract model loading from generate()/edit() into VnAssetsSession class
- Session eagerly loads SDXL + Qwen Image Edit at construction (28s, once)
- Both models held in GPU memory across calls; generate()/edit() reuse them
- generate.py and edit.py become thin wrappers (backwards compatible CLI)
- Context manager (with VnAssetsSession(...) as vna:) for library use
- Metadata backwards-compatible: all fields preserved including lora_load_s
- load_time_s now reflects total session construction, amortized across calls

- Add performance stats for edit path (Qwen Image Edit + Lightning LoRA)
- Benchmark matmul fallback (86.8s) vs flash attention (53.3s, 1.63x speedup)
- Session vs cold start comparison: 2 ops save one 28s load, 5 edits save 112s
- Flash attention via TORCH_ROCM_AOTRITON_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL=1 documented

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+# Performance Stats
+
+Hardware: **AMD Strix Halo** (Ryzen AI Max 395 Pro, Radeon 8060S, 128 GB unified memory).
+All runs use `novaAnimeXL_ilV190.safetensors` (SDXL), bfloat16, cfg=4.5.
+
+## Generate (SDXL)
+
+| Run | Resolution | Steps | Prompt Syntax | Load (s) | Inference (s) | Size | Notes |
+|-----|-----------|-------|---------------|----------|---------------|------|-------|
+| `character_base` | 1024×1024 | 20 | `BREAK` | 2.15 | 28.47 | 1.3 MB | Baseline, no weighting |
+| `character_weighted` | 1024×1024 | 20 | `(word:weight)` + `BREAK` | 2.57 | 29.94 | 1.4 MB | Full Compel syntax |
+| `background_classroom` | 1280×720 | 20 | `(word:weight)` | 2.08 | 181.85 | 1.2 MB | VAE decode dominated (flash attn enabled) |
+
+### Per-step breakdown (1024×1024)
+
+| Step | Time |
+|------|------|
+| 1 (warmup) | ~1.3–1.6s |
+| Steady state | ~1.0–1.3s |
+| Total (20 steps) | ~20–22s UNet + VAE decode |
+
+### Larger resolutions
+
+1280×720 and 1920×1080 trigger flash attention kernel compilation on first run
+(up to 250s for the first step). Subsequent runs reuse cached kernels. VAE
+decode at these resolutions is the dominant cost — 1920×1080 decode can exceed
+2 minutes.
+
+### Compel overhead
+
+Prompt weighting via `compel` adds negligible overhead (~0.4s for encoding
+long prompts with `BREAK`). The embedding path is identical to raw encoding
+once tensors reach the UNet.
+
+## Edit (Qwen Image Edit + Lightning LoRA)
+
+All edits use `qwen_image_edit_2509_fp8_e4m3fn.safetensors` + Lightning 4-step
+LoRA with turbo settings (steps=4, cfg=1.0) on 1024×1024 input images.
+
+| Run | Steps | Load (s) | LoRA (s) | Inference (s) | Notes |
+|-----|-------|----------|----------|---------------|-------|
+| `base_smile` | 4 | 28.16 | 1.49 | 86.81 | Happy smile variant (matmul fallback) |
+| `base_smile_flash` | 4 | 31.23 | 1.36 | 53.33 | Happy smile variant (flash attention) |
+
+### Per-step breakdown (1024×1024, turbo)
+
+**Matmul fallback (no flash attention):**
+
+| Step | Time |
+|------|------|
+| 1 | ~0.3s |
+| 2 | ~4.9s |
+| 3 | ~11.5s |
+| 4 | ~13.7s |
+
+**Flash attention (`TORCH_ROCM_AOTRITON_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL=1`):**
+
+| Step | Time |
+|------|------|
+| 1 | ~0.3s |
+| 2 | ~1.6s |
+| 3 | ~5.1s |
+| 4 | ~7.0s |
+
+Flash attention cuts edit inference from 86.8s → 53.3s (**1.63× speedup**).
+SDXL generate is unaffected (uses its own attention processor, not SDPA).
+Step 1 is fast (prefill/encoding). Steps 2–4 engage the full transformer
+and VAE; flash attention reduces the attention bottleneck.
+
+## Session (persistent models)
+
+Both SDXL and Qwen loaded eagerly into a single `VnAssetsSession`.
+Models held in GPU memory across calls.
+
+| Phase | Wall (s) | Details |
+|-------|----------|---------|
+| Session load | 28.2 | SDXL UNet + Qwen transformer + VAE + TE + LoRA fuse |
+| Generate | 30.7 | SDXL 20-step, 1024×1024, Compel encoding |
+| Edit (turbo) | 87.2 | Qwen 4-step, 1024×1024, Lightning LoRA |
+| **Total wall** | **146.2** | One session, 2 operations |
+
+### Session with flash attention
+
+`TORCH_ROCM_AOTRITON_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL=1` throughout.
+
+| Phase | Wall (s) | vs matmul fallback |
+|-------|----------|--------------------|
+| Session load | 31.2 | ~same |
+| Generate | 33.1 | ~same (SDXL uses own attn processor) |
+| Edit (turbo) | 53.7 | **1.62× faster** |
+| **Total wall** | **118.2** | 1.24× faster overall |
+
+### Session vs cold start
+
+| Approach | Generate | Edit | Total |
+|----------|----------|------|-------|
+| Standalone (cold) | ~33s | ~116s | ~149s |
+| Session (matmul) | ~31s | ~87s | ~146s |
+| Session (flash) | ~33s | ~54s | ~118s |
+| **Saved vs cold** | — | **~62s** | **~31s** |
+
+With 2 operations the session saves one model-load round trip (~28s).
+The saving grows linearly with more edits: 5 edits save 4×28s = 112s.
+Flash attention adds a further 1.6× multiplier on edit inference time.
+
+## Notes
+
+- `inference_time_s` includes VAE decode, which is disproportionately expensive
+  at non-square resolutions on this hardware.
+- `TORCH_ROCM_AOTRITON_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL=1` enables ROCm flash attention,
+  cutting per-step UNet time roughly in half after kernel compilation.
+- First run at a new resolution incurs kernel compilation cost; subsequent runs
+  at the same resolution are fast.
+- Session `load_time_s` in metadata reflects total session construction
+  (all models loaded); individual operation inference times exclude loading.
+- LoRA fuse time (~1.5s) is included in session load, once.