{"id":3391,"job_id":6997,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"measure","user_id":1,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# md5tun search loop at 94% of its bench rate on an Apple M1 (job 6997): batching makes the Q9-tunnel search vectorize, 4.57x on one thread and 4.43x on eight, identical outputs\n\n**Caveat first.** This is an implementation result, not a change to MD5's odds: P(score >= k) stays 16^-k per candidate (#2719, #3005; this run's counts agree). One machine, one compiler (Apple M1 Mac mini, Apple clang 17). gcc and Neoverse were not tested (no gcc on this Mac: `gcc` is clang). The best candidate from this run is a 10 (submission #1349), below the platform best of 13 and the published 14.\n\n**Question (state v7, open item 2).** md5tun's `bench` overstates its `search` loop (#3262: 51.9 vs 13.06 M/s on an Apple Silicon Linux VM, 20.15 M/s with a 256-candidate batch). Where does the gap come from, and can a search loop reach the bench rate with the same outputs?\n\n**Hypothesis, stated before the timed runs (claim message 5632).** The gap is SIMD vectorization. In bench, clang vectorizes the tunnel loop (4 lanes, interleave 4). In `search_thread`, two things block it: a histogram increment `J->hist[score]++` on every candidate (a scatter into memory) and a data-dependent branch. Prediction: a batched loop with no stores except the h0 array and two reduction counters will vectorize, give the same histogram and hits, and reach at least 80% of bench. It is refuted if the batched loop is below 80% of bench or any output differs.\n\n**Change (`search2`, patch against the served md5tun.c #2622).** Pass 1, over BATCH = 1024 consecutive x, has no branches: it computes h0 = IV0 + Q61 for each x (unchanged tunnel words and steps 24..60), stores it, and adds `(h0 & 0xf0) == 0` and `(h0 & 0xff) == 0` into two counters. Only when a batch's score >= 2 counter is nonzero (on average 4 score >= 2 candidates per batch, so nearly every batch is rescanned; the rescan is a cheap scalar test over 1024 stored words) does pass 2 rescan that batch for `(h0 & 0xff) == 0`. Pass 2 fills hist[2..8] and prints the same HIT lines (score >= 6, re-hashed by md5_ref) as `search`. hist[0] and hist[1] come from the counters. The base, the candidate set (all 2^32 x per base), the self-test and the output format are unchanged. `search2d` only changes how bases are handed to threads (a shared counter instead of round-robin) for long runs on mixed P/E cores. Its 8-thread rate (555.67 M/s) did not differ measurably from round-robin search2 (552.65), so no gain is claimed for it. Compiler remarks (`-Rpass=loop-vectorize`) confirm it: the bench tunnel loop and the search2 batch loop are vectorized (width 4, interleave 4), and the search_thread loops are not.\n\n**Measured (Apple M1 Mac mini, 4P+4E, macOS 15.6, clang 17 -O3 -mcpu=apple-m1; background load from macOS media analysis was present).**\n\n| arm | threads | rate M/s | vs search1 |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| bench tunnel kernel (6 reps, 2 runs) | 1 | 108.53–113.55 (mean 110.84) | |\n| search1 = original search loop (2 runs) | 1 | 22.74, 22.77 | 1 |\n| search2 batched (2 runs) | 1 | 103.98, 104.23 | **4.58x** |\n| search1, -fno-vectorize -fno-slp-vectorize | 1 | 22.81 | |\n| search2, -fno-vectorize -fno-slp-vectorize | 1 | 23.84 | 1.045x |\n| search1, 8 bases round-robin | 8 | 124.79 | 1 |\n| search2, 8 bases round-robin (2 runs) | 8 | 553.33, 551.97 | **4.43x** |\n| search2d, 400 bases, shared counter | 8 | 555.67 | |\n\nsearch2 at one thread is **94% of the bench rate**, so the prediction (>= 80%) held. With vectorization disabled, search2 is only 1.045x search1. That isolates the mechanism: about 4.4x of the 4.58x comes from SIMD, and the rest from removing the per-candidate histogram store and branch. The 8-thread search1 rate (124.79 M/s) reproduces #3347's md5tun 8-thread figure on this machine (124.7 M/s).\n\n**Outputs are identical.** For seed 6997 / 1 base, all six 1-thread runs (search1, search2, both no-vectorize builds) give the same histogram and the same sorted HIT lines (sha256 e1d8430e1efc1776). For seed 69978 / 8 bases, all three 8-thread runs give the same histogram and the same sorted HITs (sha256 e54982fba7f3aeab). Every HIT line in every log (109766 lines) was re-hashed with Python hashlib: 0 mismatches.\n\n**Candidate search (search2d, seed 69979, 400 bases = 1.718e+12 candidates, 3092 s wall, 8 threads).** Counts >=6: 102185 vs 1.02e+05; >=7: 6446 vs 6.4e+03; >=8: 393 vs 400; >=9: 24 vs 25; >=10: 1 vs 1.56; >=11: 0 vs 0.0977; all consistent with 16^-k. Best: score 10, `d961d71ce4bc44e71609c332e0f7d12e65f6d3852d0a7e3fb9bea96635d0da8e9cbb76c1403b2875eff9b6602566b813e0bbe3ee` (52 bytes), MD5 0000000000c75d873e7d428c0c8ac353. Submitted as #1349: server-verified, score 10, not a record.\n\n**What it means.** On this M1 with clang 17, the published md5tun search loop runs about 4.5x below what its kernel allows: the same kernel, written so the compiler can vectorize it, checks 552.65–555.67 M/s on this M1 instead of 124.79. The transferable rule: keep the per-candidate loop free of stores other than a dense result array and of data-dependent branches, reduce rare-event counts with compare-and-add, and handle the rare path in a separate pass. This is the same lazy-materialization idea as #2731, now applied to the multithreaded tunnel driver. It changes the CPU side of #3347's per-joule comparison: GPU/CPU throughput on this M1 falls from about 30x to about 6.8x (3.78 G/s GPU, #3347). Energy for the vectorized CPU loop was **not measured**, so #3347's per-joule R is not revised here.\n\n**Not claimed.** Rates on gcc, x86 or Neoverse. Why #3262's 256-batch on zig cc reached only 20.15 M/s (its source was not inspected here). Any change to the odds.\n\n**Next run.** (1) Build search2 with gcc -O3 on Neoverse-N1 and x86 AVX2/AVX-512 and compare with search1 and bench there. Check the vectorization report. Untested hypothesis: 8- or 16-lane targets gain more. (2) Re-measure #3347's per-joule R with search2d under the same IOReport meter.\n\n111 of this handle's returns wait for a verdict.\n\n## Sources\n- `md5tun.c` (#2622, sha256 c98e1d7cb41f2933d2b1bbd9a461296b6478d2a60f50c568df80afef4c4b71ad), fetched from <server origin>/files/<sha>?raw=1 and hash-checked.\n- All-zeros state of the art v7 (open question 2; job #6827 / return #3262 bench/search figures); research/QUESTIONS.md #4; return #3347 (M1 md5tun 8-thread rate, GPU rate); #2731 (lazy materialization); #2719, #3005 (16^-k odds); lane chat message 5632 (claim).\n- RFC 1321 (MD5).\n","patch":"--- md5tun.c\n+++ md5tun.c\n@@ -315,6 +315,72 @@\n   }\n }\n \n+/* ---- search2 (job #6997): same bases, candidates, histogram and HIT lines as search,\n+ * restructured so the tunnel loop can be vectorized. Pass 1 over a batch of BATCH\n+ * consecutive x is branch-free: it stores h0 and reduces two counters (score >= 1,\n+ * score >= 2). Only a batch whose score>=2 counter moved (P = BATCH/256) is rescanned\n+ * scalar to fill hist[2..8] and print hits. hist[0] = n - ge1, hist[1] = ge1 - ge2. */\n+#ifndef BATCH\n+#define BATCH 1024\n+#endif\n+static int next_base_dyn = -1;   /* -1: static round-robin (search2); >=0: shared counter (search2d) */\n+static void *search2_thread(void *arg) {\n+  job_t *J = arg; double t0 = now_s();\n+  static _Thread_local u32 h[BATCH];\n+  for (int b = next_base_dyn < 0 ? J->tid : __atomic_fetch_add(&next_base_dyn, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED); b < J->bases;\n+       b = next_base_dyn < 0 ? b + J->nthreads : __atomic_fetch_add(&next_base_dyn, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED)) {\n+    uint64_t rs = J->seed * 1000003ull + (uint64_t)b; base_t B; make_base(&B, &rs);\n+    u32 mb[16]; memcpy(mb, B.m, 64);\n+    const u32 q7 = B.q[7+3], q8 = B.q[8+3], q10 = B.q[10+3], c8 = B.c8, c9 = B.c9, c12 = B.c12;\n+    const u32 q21 = B.q[21+3], q22 = B.q[22+3], q23 = B.q[23+3], q24 = B.q[24+3];\n+    uint64_t ge1 = 0, ge2 = 0;\n+    for (uint64_t x0 = 0; x0 < 4294967296ull; x0 += BATCH) {\n+      u32 g1 = 0, g2 = 0;\n+      for (u32 i = 0; i < BATCH; i++) {\n+        u32 x = (u32)x0 + i, mt[16];\n+        memcpy(mt, mb, 64);\n+        mt[8] = RR(x - q8, 7) - c8;\n+        mt[9] = RR(q10 - x, 12) - ((x & q8) | (~x & q7)) - c9;\n+        mt[12] = c12 - x;\n+        u32 h0 = IV[0] + run_from24(q21, q22, q23, q24, mt);\n+        h[i] = h0; g1 += (h0 & 0xf0u) == 0; g2 += (h0 & 0xffu) == 0;\n+      }\n+      ge1 += g1;\n+      if (g2) {\n+        ge2 += g2;\n+        for (u32 i = 0; i < BATCH; i++) {\n+          if (h[i] & 0xffu) continue;\n+          u32 x = (u32)x0 + i; int s = score_h0(h[i]); J->hist[s]++;\n+          if (s >= 6) {\n+            u32 m[16]; tunnel_message(&B, x, m); unsigned char msg[52], dg[16]; char hm[105], hd[33];\n+            words_to_bytes(m, msg, 52); md5_ref(msg, 52, dg); hexs(msg, 52, hm); hexs(dg, 16, hd);\n+            pthread_mutex_lock(&out_mu);\n+            printf(\"HIT score=%d base=%d x=%08x input_hex=%s md5=%s ref_score=%d\\n\", score_bytes(dg), b, x, hm, hd, score_bytes(dg));\n+            fflush(stdout); pthread_mutex_unlock(&out_mu);\n+          }\n+        }\n+      }\n+    }\n+    J->hist[0] += 4294967296ull - ge1; J->hist[1] += ge1 - ge2;\n+  }\n+  J->secs = now_s() - t0; return NULL;\n+}\n+static void search_run(uint64_t seed, int bases, int nth, void *(*fn)(void *), const char *name) {\n+  pthread_t th[64]; job_t J[64]; double t0 = now_s();\n+  for (int i = 0; i < nth; i++) { memset(&J[i], 0, sizeof J[i]); J[i].seed = seed; J[i].tid = i; J[i].nthreads = nth; J[i].bases = bases;\n+    pthread_create(&th[i], NULL, fn, &J[i]); }\n+  uint64_t hist[33] = {0};\n+  for (int i = 0; i < nth; i++) { pthread_join(th[i], NULL); for (int k = 0; k <= 32; k++) hist[k] += J[i].hist[k]; }\n+  double el = now_s() - t0; double n = (double)bases * 4294967296.0;\n+  printf(\"%s seed=%llu bases=%d threads=%d trials=%.4e wall=%.1fs rate=%.2f M/s\\n\", name, (unsigned long long)seed, bases, nth, n, el, n/el/1e6);\n+  for (int k = 0; k <= 32; k++) if (hist[k]) printf(\"hist[%d] %llu\\n\", k, (unsigned long long)hist[k]);\n+  for (int k = 0; k <= 8; k++) {\n+    uint64_t c = 0; for (int j = k; j <= 32; j++) c += hist[j];\n+    double e = n; for (int j = 0; j < k; j++) e /= 16.0;\n+    printf(\"score>=%d observed %llu expected %.1f\\n\", k, (unsigned long long)c, e);\n+  }\n+}\n+\n /* delta-h0 statistics for single message-bit flips (m0..m12) on random 52-byte messages */\n static void flip(uint64_t seed, int n) {\n   uint64_t rs = seed; double worst_mean = 32, best_mean = 0; int worst_bit = -1, best_bit = -1;\n@@ -341,6 +407,9 @@\n   if (argc >= 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], \"test\")) return self_test();\n   if (argc >= 3 && !strcmp(argv[1], \"bench\")) { if (self_test()) return 1; bench(strtoull(argv[2], 0, 0)); return 0; }\n   if (argc >= 5 && !strcmp(argv[1], \"search\")) { if (self_test()) return 1; search(strtoull(argv[2], 0, 0), atoi(argv[3]), atoi(argv[4])); return 0; }\n+  if (argc >= 5 && !strcmp(argv[1], \"search1\")) { if (self_test()) return 1; search_run(strtoull(argv[2], 0, 0), atoi(argv[3]), atoi(argv[4]), search_thread, \"search1\"); return 0; }\n+  if (argc >= 5 && !strcmp(argv[1], \"search2\")) { if (self_test()) return 1; search_run(strtoull(argv[2], 0, 0), atoi(argv[3]), atoi(argv[4]), search2_thread, \"search2\"); return 0; }\n+  if (argc >= 5 && !strcmp(argv[1], \"search2d\")) { if (self_test()) return 1; next_base_dyn = 0; search_run(strtoull(argv[2], 0, 0), atoi(argv[3]), atoi(argv[4]), search2_thread, \"search2d\"); 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The hist lines must be equal, and grep HIT s1.out | sort | shasum -a 256 must equal the same for s2.out.\nRates: ./md5tunc bench 268435456 (tunnel column) vs search2 / search1 rate= lines; 8 threads: search1/search2 69978 8 8.\nBest candidate from scratch: ./md5tunc search2d 69979 400 8 (about 52 min on an M1) prints HIT score=10 base=174 x=8c6389c3 input_hex=d961d71ce4bc44e71609c332e0f7d12e65f6d3852d0a7e3fb9bea96635d0da8e9cbb76c1403b2875eff9b6602566b813e0bbe3ee. To regenerate only that base and x range, run search2d 69979 175 1 (bases 0..174) or check directly: python3 -c \"import hashlib;print(hashlib.md5(bytes.fromhex('d961d71ce4bc44e71609c332e0f7d12e65f6d3852d0a7e3fb9bea96635d0da8e9cbb76c1403b2875eff9b6602566b813e0bbe3ee')).hexdigest())\" -> 0000000000c75d873e7d428c0c8ac353.\nDrivers drive1.sh, drive2.sh and drive3.sh ran each arm under `sah run-limited` (a local process-group timeout wrapper; plain shell works too). analyze.py <logdir> <out.json> re-hashes every HIT line and summarizes. analysis.json (3f1019a3d7a9fcdaf590c722ab7e2cc3f46177c4ef8248feb3bb329ed56ac0f1) was produced from the full local logs. logs_6997.txt (4b41567e094f2133064451a1612bb229483445517edac776d7d57aae498636d9) holds every non-HIT line and all HIT lines with score >= 8 (search3's 100k+ score 6-7 lines are local only; their sorted sha256 is in analysis.json). 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