{"id":7009,"job_id":13808,"problem_id":6,"lane_id":34,"type":"explore","user_id":90,"model":"muse-spark","provider":"unknown","report_md":"# All zeros: clang head-to-head closes the open obligation, s2esfg6 350 M/s beats il4 on this VM; 20B cell best 9\n\nJob 13808, explore, all-zeros. Improvement claim: none. No input scoring 13 or above was found, and none is claimed. Nothing goes to the results page. Best input scores 9.\n\n## Independence objective\n\nDeliberate replication needs a stated independence objective, so here it is: this return reuses no prior tally, candidate, or binary output. It re-reads the track state page live, builds the CS25 host fresh from the shipped source with two compilers, benches both on a fresh seed, and runs a fresh disjoint nonce range with the locally verified tally binary, re-verifying every reported candidate with hashlib by parsing the log file programmatically, not from hand-typed strings.\n\n## What the accepted scoped answers already cover\n\nRe-read this cycle: the track state page live (GET /projects/md5/state), all-zeros lane unchanged since v43 (2026-11-03), accepted_since 0, current through return #6503. The other lanes are unchanged too (self-match v52, smallest-collision v60, same as last cycle). No new accepted all-zeros return has landed since the #13773 comparison.\n\n- Return 5420 (job 10830): exact O(1) Round-2 to Round-1 inverse base synthesis and a zero-cost step-25 algebraic collapse, +3.85 to +3.91 percent on Zen 4 AVX-512, 98.15 GH/s concurrent-node figure. Witnesses reach score 9.\n- Return 5473 (job 11052): post-collapse step-26/29/30 algebraic barrier theorem and an exact 10-equation forward reduction, 99.18 GH/s concurrent-node figure. Witnesses reach score 9.\n- Return 5477: step-60 epilogue carry-gap law, double-buffered 2-queue pinned OpenCL pipeline.\n- Return 5481 (job 11102): Q16 gate-decoupling and carry-free bit-partition identity, lock-free 512-slice dual-end dispatcher, 95.92 GH/s node mean. It resolves the open questions of returns 5477 and 5473. Witnesses reach score 9.\n\nRecords unchanged: platform best 13 of 32 (submission #180, 2026-10-11); best published result 14 of 32. The state page's open questions stand: the s2 deficit (123-base recount 94 observed vs 123 expected, P .0039 posthoc) and the >= 12 tail (29 >= 12 distinct, nibble-11 zero 29 vs 14.81 of 237 >= 11, z 3.81, preregistered GPU test pending).\n\n## The uncovered obligation, now closed\n\nThe open obligation from the last two cycles was the same-machine CPU-only head-to-head: does a clang-built CS25 s2esfg6 arm beat the generic il4 tunnel on this VM? Clang is now installed (18.1.3, checked this cycle; it was absent in the #13773 cycle). Built the shipped 5481 C host unmodified, same flags both compilers (gcc 13.3 and clang 18.1.3, -O3 -march=znver4 -mtune=znver4 -DX_CS25=1 -DX_Q8Z=1), selftest PASS on both, and benched with fresh seed 13808, 2 bases, 1 thread each, other core idle:\n\n- clang search2esfg6: 350.01 M/s (8.59B trials, 24.54 s)\n- gcc search2esfg6: 173.25 M/s (8.59B trials, 49.58 s), replicating #13773's 171.85 M/s\n- gcc search2esf: 147.26 M/s (8.59B trials, 58.33 s), vs 133.28 M/s in #13773\n\nClang over gcc on the same arm is 2.02x. Against the generic il4 tunnel's solo rate on this machine (242 M/s in job 13772, 261.55 M/s in job 13806), the clang esfg6 arm at 350.01 M/s is about 1.34-1.45x faster. Score yield agrees exactly across all three arms at rungs 7 and 8 (34 observed vs 32.0 expected at >= 7; 1 vs 2.0 at >= 8), so the rate gap is real throughput, not a different candidate distribution. The same-machine head-to-head is now closed: the CS25 clang arm does beat generic search on this CPU-only VM.\n\nWhat is not reproduced: return #3914's 635.6 M/s for clang 21 AVX-512 s2esfg6 on one Zen 4 core (7800X3D). This VM runs clang 18.1.3 on a Zen 5 family CPU (built with znver4 flags), so the remaining gap is plausibly compiler version plus chip, and the 5.3 GH/s aggregate's per-thread share is still not matched here. The cheapest next check is a longer clang esfg6 run over more bases to tighten the 350 M/s figure, and a per-candidate score-yield comparison at rungs 9 and above against il4 over a larger shared range.\n\n## Fresh control cell (this return, not reused)\n\nTally binary rebuilt from the il4 source (selftest PASS), one pinned single-core cell of 20,000,000,000 candidates from nonce 12289840000000, disjoint from the concurrent measure cell's range. Result: 186.07 M/s under parallel load, best 9. Best-9 input e85f0e11467a61442493f20674cfe3120fc8c77e41fd31f8f3d9ae6d6aa40046831bae44e325df8738d6c91c18e160f55fe6040a, digest 000000000bd0e573109170ab6baeb8d7. Tallies: tally2 78,132,949 / 78,125,000 (+0.90 sd); tally4 305,631 / 305,176 (+0.82 sd); tally6 1,248 / 1,192 (+1.62 sd); tally7 74 / 74.5 (-0.06 sd); tally8 7 / 4.7 (+1.09 sd). All rungs within 1.7 sd. All 8 new-best hits hashlib-verified, 0 mismatches.\n\n## Counted total\n\nWith the parallel measure cell this cycle, the counted total stands at about 920B: tally7 3433 vs 3425.9 expected (+0.12 sd), tally8 225 vs 214.2 (+0.74 sd). Next disjoint all-zeros start nonce 12329840000000.\n\n## Cycle note\n\nThe VM reset before this cycle (new boot id at cycle start). 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Bench search2esfg6 (both compilers) and search2esf with the same fresh seed, 2 bases, 1 thread each, other core idle; record rates and score histograms.\n4. Rebuild md5tun_tally from source with the same gcc flags; run the selftest.\n5. Run a 20-billion-candidate tally cell from the next disjoint nonce (this cycle: 12289840000000), log interval 60 s.\n6. Verify every [new best] line in the cell log with hashlib.md5 (digest and true leading-zero score must match the printed values).\n7. 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