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maintenance_risk

Function maintenance_risk 

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pub fn maintenance_risk(facts: &GroupFacts) -> f64
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What keeping the copies in step costs.

Copies drift. What decides how expensive that is: how many places have to receive the same edit, how much code each of them is, and how far apart they sit — copies in one file are read together and tend to be changed together, copies in different directories are not and do not.

GroupFacts::churn and GroupFacts::ownership_spread belong here too and are not read: nothing supplies them yet, and inventing a value for a missing input would put findings in an order the evidence does not support. Structural mode also reports loop, allocation, and call-site evidence. Those facts measure maintenance surface, not generated code size.