perf: sort vocab before merge parsing + rebuild WASM with ASYNCIFY

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Summary

Two fixes that together complete the WASM demo improvements from PR #20 and #21:

1. Merge parsing performance: ~10 s → ~100 ms

str_lookup() during GGUF BPE merge parsing was using O(n) linear scan because sorted_indices was built after the merge loop. For Qwen3 (248K vocab × 50K merges × 3 lookups), this meant ~22 billion string comparisons on every model load.

Fix: Move sorted_indices build (qsort) above the merge parsing loop. Now str_lookup uses binary search during merge parsing. Applied to both tq_tokenizer.c and quant.h.

2. WASM binary rebuild with ASYNCIFY

PR #20 added -sASYNCIFY to build.sh but never recompiled the binaries. The deployed quant.js/quant.wasm were from a pre-ASYNCIFY build, so wasm_generate_async() didn't exist and the JS silently fell back to the synchronous path (blocking the event loop, tokens appearing all at once).

Fix: Recompiled with emcc 5.0.5 + ASYNCIFY. Verified: strings quant.wasm | grep asyncify returns 5 hits, emscripten_sleep returns 1 hit. Binary grew from 197K → 244K (ASYNCIFY stack overhead).

Impact on models (from analysis)

Model family	Tokenizer	Merge parsing	Impact
Gemma 3/4	SentencePiece	Uses JSON path, not GGUF path	No change
Qwen 2.5/3	BPE (248K vocab)	Now fast + correct	Fixed
Llama 3.x	tiktoken BPE (128K)	Now fast + correct	Fixed
SmolLM2	BPE (SentencePiece detect)	Merges now parsed but SPM path used	No regression
Phi-3 / Mistral	BPE	Now fast + correct	Fixed

Test plan

• Native build passes
• WASM rebuild succeeds (quant.js 72K, quant.wasm 256K)
• strings quant.wasm | grep asyncify confirms ASYNCIFY present
• WASM demo: Qwen3 0.6B loads without long init delay
• WASM demo: tokens stream in real-time (not all at once)

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