Cache/memoize per-ledger work in the endpoint handlers for performance #989

What

Adjacent to the query-path optimizations in epic #732, several endpoints redo per-request work whose answer only changes once per ledger close. getLatestLedger was the slowest no-parameter endpoint by over 2x (see @tamirms's measurements here, or any release eval run), and getNetwork / getVersionInfo decoded the whole ~2 MB latest LedgerCloseMeta to read one 4-byte protocol version. Under load these cheap-looking endpoints were the first to buckle.

This issue tracks caching/memoization of that per-ledger work in the endpoint handlers. Anything that only changes when the ledger sequence changes can be memoized keyed by sequence: a new ledger invalidates the entry by moving the key, so no ingestion hook is needed, and one bounded single-entry memo amortizes the work down to once per close across all polls.

Implemented in #1003 as a generic latestMemo[T] (atomic pointer to a {seq, value} entry plus a miss mutex, so a burst at a ledger boundary computes once, an older read view cannot evict a newer ledger's value, and errors are never memoized), used by:

• getLatestLedger: the fully rendered JSON response, keyed by sequence.
• getNetwork and getVersionInfo: the protocol version, via a shared protocolVersionCache. Use views in getProtocolVersion #1035 (merged) first made the miss path cheap by reading the version off the header view instead of decoding the ledger.

Acceptance criteria

• getLatestLedger caches its rendered response, invalidated by ledger sequence ([DRAFT] Optimize query-path caching/memoization #1003)
• getNetwork and getVersionInfo memoize the latest ledger's protocol version by sequence ([DRAFT] Optimize query-path caching/memoization #1003, on top of Use views in getProtocolVersion #1035)
• simulateTransaction's getLatestLedgerPreflightInfo stops full-decoding the latest ledger for three header fields (protocol version, bucket list size, close time): read them off the view and memoize by sequence like the above
• release eval harness run over the change, speedup noted (perf-eval runs Remove contract-committers from CODEOWNERS #7–soroban-rpc: add an endpoint on soroban RPC to self report versions for downstream clients #10 on the sticky comment; compare against the pre-optimization baseline in [Benchmarking] revert query-path backends to pre-XDR-views to measure speedup #1018)
• [optional] decide whether the three per-handler memos should become one shared latest-ledger cache wired through specs.go; per-field laziness would be needed so a getNetwork miss does not trigger the 2 MB render

Measurements

Handler-level, perf-eval go-bench leg, pubnet-sized ledger:

getNetwork over the pubnet sqlite fixture (v1 sqlite / v2 hot); getVersionInfo tracks it within noise:

Out of scope

• Committing ingestion transactions outside the ledger-range cache lock (Commit ingestion transactions outside the ledger-range cache lock #1036): tracked in a separate issue.
• Bypassing jrpc2's marshal round trip for raw response passthrough (jsonrpc: replace jhttp.Bridge with an in-tree bridge #1037; supersedes jsonrpc: own the response envelope — one marshal, one write; the jhttp bridge retires #969): response path, not caching.
• The XDR views migration itself: epic Query-path Sub-Epic: Adopt zero-copy XDR views and GetLedgerRaw for performance #732.