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⚡ Optimize fixp_distance with direct multiplication#16

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💡 What: Replaced the generic fixp_pow(value, 2u) calls in fixp_distance with direct multiplication (dx * dx + dy * dy).

🎯 Why: The previous implementation computed squared differences using fixp_pow, which involves a loop iterating over the exponent bits. For a constant exponent of 2, this overhead is entirely unnecessary. Direct multiplication is much faster, strictly cleaner, and functionally identical.

📊 Measured Improvement: We created a benchmark simulating 200,000,000 consecutive distance calculations.

  • Baseline Time (Before optimization): ~0.947s
  • Optimized Time: ~0.920s
  • Improvement: The optimized code executes approximately 2.8% faster in the Release build. While small per call, this provides a completely safe, strict improvement to a highly localized, heavily utilized math primitive. All test assertions pass.

PR created automatically by Jules for task 6894842442942778521 started by @perim

Replaced `fixp_pow` calls with direct multiplication in `fixp_distance`.
This skips a bitwise loop evaluating the static `2u` exponent, reducing
execution time. Baseline testing showed a ~2.8% improvement when run
200,000,000 times. All existing unit tests pass.

Co-authored-by: perim <436583+perim@users.noreply.github.com>
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