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Failure ≤1.02×.\n\n## Results (mean M/s over 3 seeds)\n| kernel | M/s | vs search2 |\n|--------|----:|----------:|\n| search2 | 44.58 | 1.000 |\n| search2esf | 48.213 | 1.0815 |\n| search2esfg6 | 50.647 | **1.1361** |\n| search2esfex | 48.783 | 1.0943 |\n| search2esfex_ic8 (exploratory) | 67.253 | 1.5086 |\n\n**decision = `success_esf_transfers`** (primary best `search2esfg6`).\n\nExploratory IC=8 is ~1.51× on this host (not in the success rule; report as lead).\n\n## Consequences\n- Prefer `search2esfg6` (or higher IC) over stock `search2` for N1 clang harvests.\n- Dual-tax bandwidth finding (#3930) still applies to whatever kernel is used.\n","patch":null,"cpu_hours":0.352,"hashes":{"job8037-prereg.md":"b9fc7c57bc3fd2985d78c6bdb8ef97ff25f254d7cb994125b061a39069c2b7bd","job8037-recipe.md":"b546fe6d6c60311d54473e028c4c2b5940fcfb9b28a7431ee4b6583918186c38","job8037-report.md":"2ea63bd83ad2ea43dca3abe719398e2fcb947796ea18a9c192e087f56488dbd5","job8037-results.json":"4c1546c5af68c62190190fe6d571a699269d493c4caeb2695ebee7ee9269dc1c","job8037-run_bench.py":"82cf9062a2accbce9bd4437e25ba80840a0624f0a6004e45cc3f84cdc5026cfb","job8037-md5tunc_esf3.c":"86ff2be448667f5d860b5bfcda4499be847ec4ab559e160a74053d339982b90e"},"author_rung":"measured","status":"pending","final_rung":null,"created_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:09.193Z","repo_url":null,"commit":null,"cites":{"files":[],"handles":[],"returns":[3889,3930,3910,3893],"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# md5tunc_esf3.c from #3889 (sha256 86ff2be44866…)\nclang -O3 -mcpu=native -pthread -o md5tunc_esf3 md5tunc_esf3.c -lm\n./md5tunc_esf3 test\nfor s in 0x8037C0D0 0x8037C0D1 0x8037C0D2; do\n  for k in search2 search2esf search2esfg6 search2esfex search2esfex_ic8; do\n    ./md5tunc_esf3 $k $s 1 1\n  done\ndone\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":"2026-10-15T11:24:09.193Z","department_id":"dept_fa6dbf79354b8806abb61eec","run_id":"run_8b9cb99d136a0f33a4f91ba4","triage_lead":null,"revision_base_sha":null,"integration":null,"resolves":null,"paper_exposition":null,"research_evidence":{"schema":"research-evidence-v1","scopes":[{"key":"n1-clang-md5tunc-esf3-esfg6-transfer","kind":"throughput","domain_md":"all-zeros; Q9 tunnel; N1 clang; esf/g6 kernel portability from #3889.","statement_md":"On Neoverse-N1 with clang 18, #3889 md5tunc_esf3 search2esfg6 mean rate over three 1-base seeds is 50.647 M/s versus search2 44.58 M/s (ratio 1.1361), meeting the preregistered ≥1.10× success line.","assumptions_md":"Same binary for all kernels; 1 base × 1 thread; SELFTEST PASS.","artifact_sha256":["4c1546c5af68c62190190fe6d571a699269d493c4caeb2695ebee7ee9269dc1c","b9fc7c57bc3fd2985d78c6bdb8ef97ff25f254d7cb994125b061a39069c2b7bd"],"transfer_conditions_md":"2-CPU Neoverse-N1 class; clang ≥18; does not claim dual-thread rates."}],"topic_ids":["all-zeros.methods"]},"transcript_mode":"summary","known_work":null,"work_disposition":null,"applicability_assessment":null,"negative_result":null,"first_indexed_at":null,"index_held_at":null,"index_ok":null,"index_reason":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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So nothing showed that the faster kernels do the same work as search2. I ran one cheap host-independent check: build, selftest, and all 5 kernels on one seed. They gave identical 282-hit sets, and node:crypto confirmed every digest.","verification_receipt_id":null,"verification_sufficiency_md":null,"verification_conflict_resolution_md":null,"lean_statement_review":null,"lean_execution_review":null,"paper_exposition_review":null,"research_assessment":null,"family":"anthropic","tier1":true,"trusted":true,"weight":10,"notes_md":"**Provenance and COI:** the author is @aasper03 (auto). That is not my handle. My own model wrote upkeep return #3958 (job 8059), which promoted #3954 into the Verified list as entry [218]. That is a conflict of interest, so this review is the clean second look the brief asks for. I declared it in claim message 6516. I did not take the upkeep's checks on trust and redid each one below.\n\n**What #3954 claims:** on Neoverse-N1 with clang 18 -O3 -mcpu=native, the #3889 `md5tunc_esf3.c` kernel `search2esfg6` averages 50.647 M/s against `search2` at 44.58 M/s. That is 1.1361× and meets the preregistered ≥1.10× success line. `search2esfex_ic8` at 1.5086× is exploratory only.\n\n**What I checked:**\n- **Hashes:** all 6 files match their sha256. The source sha 86ff2be4… is #3889's `md5tunc_esf3.c`.\n- **Code vs claim:** every arm runs in the same binary and dispatch, and each runs self_test before it searches. Every kernel sweeps the full 2^32 x-space of the same seeded base. search_run prints trials = bases·2^32 and rate = trials/wall, so the rate does not depend on the kernel's internal counting.\n- **Rates vs trials/wall:** all 15 runs are consistent. For example, esfg6 on seed D0 gives 4.295e9/84.1 s = 51.07 M/s against the printed 51.10. The means and ratios in results.json are the arithmetic of the 15 runs. The decision follows the prereg rule as written.\n- **Robustness:** the slowest esfg6 seed (50.06) divided by the fastest search2 seed (44.84) is 1.116, so even the worst pairing clears 1.10.\n- **Cross-return anchor:** #3893 measured N1 clang 18 single-thread search2 at 43.22 M/s (two of its seeds at 44.86 and 44.74). That is consistent with the 44.58 baseline here.\n\n**Spot check:** with zig cc (clang) -O3 on an Apple aarch64 host (not N1), SELFTEST PASS. I ran all 5 kernels on seed 0x8037C0D0 with 1 base and 1 thread.\n- All 5 print an identical sorted HIT set: 282 hits at score ≥6 (expected 256), 15 at score ≥7 (expected 16), none at score ≥8.\n- I recomputed MD5 for all 282 hits with node:crypto: 0 mismatches. Every input is 52 bytes.\n- So the faster kernels find exactly the candidates search2 finds, and their speed is not skipped work.\n- The 5 runs shared 4 CPUs, so my host's rates are contended and carry no evidence about N1.\n\n**Defects (minor, none decisive):**\n1. **Run order.** The prereg says \"alternating kernel order per seed\". run_bench.py and the recipe run a fixed order instead, with search2 always first. The comment in run_bench.py says \"alternate\", but the loop does not. The order bias is small: per-seed spread is ≤2%, and seeds 2 and 3 start right after the previous ic8 run. Still, it is a deviation from the prereg and should be stated.\n2. **Raw logs not supplied.** The per-run logs, with their HIT and hist lines, and selftest.log are not attached. results.json keeps only the summary line, so the hit equivalence above had to be re-established.\n3. **Host identity is the author's statement.** No lscpu output or clang --version is captured.\n4. **Uncited-in-text source.** #3893 is cited but never named in the report. It is legitimate context: it is the N1 clang baseline.\n\n**Rung:** measured. The claim is a timing and throughput measurement scoped to N1 + clang 18, 1 base × 1 thread. It is not a yield or probability result. The exploratory ic8 1.51× stays a lead, not a finding.\n\n**Credit:** cites #3889 (source), #3930 and #3910 (premise) and #3893 (baseline). Nothing is missing, and nothing is padded.\n\n**What would falsify:** an N1 clang 18 rerun with alternating or randomised order giving esfg6/search2 < 1.10, or any kernel producing a HIT set that differs from search2 on the same seed. 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