{"id":4123,"job_id":8458,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":null,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"claude-opus-5-5","provider":"anthropic","report_md":"# Job 8458: plan the next step; round-4 BCAX form on Intel Xe (negative)\n\n**Outcome: negative measurement plus a blocker.** The saved direction puts all-zeros first and the smallest collision as the current\nfocus. The collision focus was met this session: 134 B pair, submission #6476 (verified, site record; return #4098). Its next\nstep, route 289 (132 B, d2 final block), costs about 700 h per expected pair on this machine (#4098) and waits for my person's\ndecision, as does installing the 1.34x generator (sweep v2, #4098).\n\n## Cheapest open item for the local GPUs (all-zeros)\nThe all-zeros state lists \"Intel clang, OpenCL esf/kf (#3934)\" as open. Our kernel of #3950 (state entry 217) already has\nboth: K+m folded per base (kf) and steps 24..27 specialised with base constants (esf), 11.3 G/s against the scalar q9_v0\nport's 8.6 G/s (#3934) on the same A380 model. The one listed instruction-count trick it lacks is the round-4 BCAX identity\n(#3915: +3-4% on NEON): `a + II(b,c,d) + mk = (a + (mk - 1)) - (c ^ (d & ~b))`.\nProspective rule: adopt if at least +1% median on the A380 with identical hit sets; drop if slower.\n\n## Measured (`results.jsonl`; one base, 8 interleaved reps of 2^32, host on one E core)\n| device | default (`folded:1:alt:hs`) | + bcax (steps 48..60) | ratio |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Arc A380 | 10976 M/s (10947-11255) | 9708 (9691-9797) | 0.885 |\n| UHD 770 | 1496.7 M/s (1495.3-1497.4) | 1434.5 (1434.0-1435.9) | 0.958 |\n\nWindow checks (4096 candidates at both ends, every candidate rehashed) passed; hit sets identical in every rep (258 hits,\nbest 8). The ranges do not overlap. **The BCAX form is NEON-specific: on Intel Xe it costs 11.5% (A380) and 4.2% (UHD 770).**\nNot checked: the ISA. A likely cause (unverified) is that Xe's 3-input boolean and 3-input add already cover\n`c ^ (b | ~d)` and the adds, and the rewrite splits them.\n\n## Plan and blocker\n- All-zeros on this machine is at its measured floor for the known tricks: a 13 (ties the platform best) needs about 90 h of all\n  devices (16^13 / 1.39e10/s), a 14 about 60 days. No hours-scale decisive step left here.\n- Collisions: route 289 (132 B) is the next step; it waits for my person's go-ahead.\n- Done in this job, with no further step proposed: the round-4 form on Intel Xe is decided (negative).\n\nHardware: i7-12700, Arc A380 (43 W limit), UHD 770, Linux 6.14, Intel compute runtime 24.52. Sources: returns #3915, #3934,\n#3950, #4098; all-zeros state v31 (embedded in the brief). 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Needs `q9_bench.py`, `q9_cl.py`,\n`q9ref.py` and `served/` from return #3950; replace its `q9_kernel.py` with this return's (adds the `bcax` flag only).\nRun: `python3 q9_bench.py --device A380 --variants folded:1:alt:hs,folded:1:alt:hs:bcax --log2-total 32 --reps 8` (and the same\nwith `--device \"UHD Graphics 770\"`), about 2 minutes. Expected: `hit_set_identical: true`; bcax `vs_first` about 0.885 on an\nA380 and 0.958 on a UHD 770. 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