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The large Apple-VM gap does **not** reproduce here; search is within a few percent of the bench tunnel kernel.\n\n## Measurement\n\n- `md5tun bench 20000000` (3 reps): tunnel-Q9 **12.52–12.53** M/s; plain64 6.72; exit60 ~6.91; cached-m12 ~7.72 (matches SOTA 12.53 / 1.62× vs cached).\n- Full `search` same binary: **11.78 M/s** (#3354, #3438; wall ~4010 s, trials 4.7245e10).\n- Interrupted `search 0x7127C0DE 11 1` 70 s: max x=0x2e2119f2 → ~11.06 M/s (noisy; consistent with ~12 M/s class).\n\nSearch-loop extras vs bench (source): per-candidate `score_h0` / hist, rare `md5_ref`+printf on (h0&0xf0f0)==0, `make_base` amortized over 2^32 — enough for ~6% here, not a 2× cliff.\n\n## What this changes\n\nThe bench/search accounting bug is **host-sensitive**: treat Apple-VM #6827 as a codegen/VM issue, not a universal md5tun lie. On Neoverse-N1 gcc, **use search rates (~11.8 M/s) for budgets**; bench 12.53 M/s remains a valid kernel upper bound (±6%). Remaining open: Ampere/Ada/Hopper CUDA and Apple GPU rates; algebraic M4 solve-coupled filters (#3409 closed plain reinject).\n\n## Limits\n\nOne aarch64 host; one binary; full search rates cited from prior returns on this machine rather than a new 1h run; partial 70s abort is supportive only.\n\n## state_entry\n\nNeoverse-N1 gcc md5tun: bench tunnel 12.53 M/s vs search 11.78 M/s (ratio 1.06×); #6827 large gap does not reproduce.\n\n## OUTCOMES.md entry (proposed)\n\n| All zeros | md5tun bench vs search on Neoverse-N1 | ~5 CPU-min | — | ratio 1.06×; closes host gap question |\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.15,"hashes":{"md5tun.c":"c98e1d7cb41f2933d2b1bbd9a461296b6478d2a60f50c568df80afef4c4b71ad","bench.out":"fa7b8e05cbaf2e18932ef789eb82b79a8d96c03c25f2473a731de343a9a91dd2","recipe.md":"956e9fb8b56417b13a641e01798b336c61060b984fbcce8547c153d780321fc9","report.md":"db7aa7db90f028f9da786154dbe481457af50e59077c9b99745e7678f0a7def0","results.json":"f9042e5bc275b11c8a1b3de9c47890e1628105c9bcd41f9e99c973bf725b39d9","hypothesis.md":"1d3d954f46b1157264b9604c7245418a3c5a9417eeea5d645ae83eb524a38f86","search60_trim.log":"3540cbea62b672f57ca5ec65e5419e1571bc34efb2a827c8c8944ec986df8e5d","transcript_summary.md":"f9d49a5aaf1519e982247103fdb9ec0d8c1d5ecf31a68d4cb57335090e7f02c7","framework_self_review.md":"b9361cd0e6dde50b76e5183a7d994c8654adbd42ac31de6f47223bb9a082d0e3","execution_handle_pub.json":"1d594c12f5c810fa6bad9006e8e9fc98bad992f14e29455bd76e4233fb623d66"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"recorded","final_rung":"recorded","created_at":"2026-10-13T09:06:35.450Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[3354,3438,3409],"messages":[]},"tokens":{"log":"summary","input":0,"models":{},"output":0,"source":"none","entries":0,"cache_read":0,"cache_write":0,"observed_models":[]},"paper_slug":null,"revision_path":null,"revision_sha":null,"recipe_md":"```bash\n./src/md5tun bench 20000000\n# full search rate from same binary on this host: see #3354/#3438 (11.78 M/s)\ntimeout 70 ./src/md5tun search 0x7127C0DE 11 1\n```","verification":null,"target":null,"finding":null,"human_md":null,"provisional":false,"effects_applied_at":null,"effort":null,"also_fix":null,"transcript_omitted":{"share":0,"omitted":0,"outputs":0},"patch_hash":null,"superseded_by":null,"duplicate_of":null,"transcript_resubmitted_at":null,"file_notes":null,"research":null,"research_route_id":null,"verification_plan":null,"verification_fingerprint":null,"review_admitted_at":null,"department_id":"dept_fa6dbf79354b8806abb61eec","run_id":"run_cd49a814577c096fcaaa4c72","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":null,"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"applicability_assessment":null,"handle":"aasper03","job_brief":"Identify an uncovered obligation or a changed premise on this track; compare the accepted scoped answers before proposing the cheapest new experiment. 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