jcode + GPT-5.4 on json-unescape

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--- [1] read --- 1 # json-unescape 2 3 Decode JSON string escape sequences. This is the hot path of every JSON parser. 4 5 ## Task 6 7 You are given a working, tested, production-quality implementation in 8 `submission/solve.c`. Make it faster. It must stay correct on every input. 9 The verifier checks correctness exhaustively; the grader measures cost as 10 instructions executed inside your function. 11 12 ``` 13 ./grade # full loop: build, verify exhaustively, measure, score 14 ./grade --seed 42 # reproduce a specific cost corpus 15 ``` 16 17 Edit only `submission/solve.c` (you may add extra .c/.h files in `submission/`; 18 they are compiled and linked automatically). 19 20 ## Contract 21 22 ```c 23 // Decode the body of a JSON string (the bytes between the quotes). 24 // in / in_len: input bytes. out: output buffer, always large enough 25 // (caller guarantees capacity >= 3 * in_len + 4). 26 // Returns number of bytes written, or (size_t)-1 if the input is invalid. 27 size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out); 28 ``` 29 30 Semantics (RFC 8259): 31 32 - Bytes `0x00-0x1F` and `"` (0x22) are invalid anywhere (a JSON string body 33 cannot contain them unescaped). 34 - `\` starts an escape: `\"` `\\` `\/` `\b` `\f` `\n` `\r` `\t` decode to their 35 single byte; `\uXXXX` (exactly 4 hex digits, either case) decodes to the code 36 point encoded as UTF-8. 37 - Code points `0xD800-0xDBFF` (high surrogates) must be followed immediately by 38 `\uDC00-\uDFFF`; the pair decodes to one supplementary code point (4 UTF-8 39 bytes). A lone surrogate (high or low) is invalid. 40 - Any other byte after `\` is invalid. A trailing `\` or truncated `\uXXX` is 41 invalid. 42 - All other bytes `0x20-0xFF` (except `"` and `\`) pass through unchanged. 43 UTF-8 well-formedness of passthrough bytes is NOT checked (matching common 44 parser behavior). 45 - On invalid input, return `(size_t)-1`. Output buffer contents are then 46 unspecified. 47 48 ## Verification (the gate) 49 50 `verify.c` compares your function against the reference on: 51 52 1. Every string of length 0..5 over a 19-byte adversarial alphabet 53 (`\ " / u b f n r t 0 8 9 a c d A D`, 0x1F, 0xC3) — ~2.8M cases covering the 54 full escape grammar, truncations, and invalid forms. 55 2. All 65,536 `\uXXXX` sequences. 56 3. All 1,048,576 surrogate `\uXXXX\uYYYY` pairs. 57 4. Each of the above with valid prefix/suffix padding. 58 5. 100,000 seeded random long strings (1-4KB) mixing all regimes, including 59 every invalid-input class. 60 61 Any mismatch fails the grade and prints the counterexample. There is no partial 62 credit for "mostly correct". 63 64 ## Cost model (the score) 65 66 Instructions executed inside `json_unescape` (and callees), counted by 67 callgrind, over a corpus of ~2MB spanning five escape-density regimes 68 (plain ASCII, light escapes, dense escapes, unicode-heavy, surrogate-heavy; 69 weights published in `gen_corpus.py`). 70 71 - The corpus is freshly seeded on every grade; memorizing corpus outputs is 72 worthless. Scoring is paired: the frozen given implementation 73 (`verify/given.c`) is measured on the same corpus in the same grade, so 74 corpus difficulty cancels exactly and the score is seed-independent. 75 Use `--seed` for exact reproduction. 76 - One-time table setup in constructors or first-call init is NOT counted 77 (real libraries amortize static tables too). Per-call work is counted. 78 - Instruction count is deterministic and machine-independent for the same 79 binary: no wall-clock noise. 80 81 ``` 82 score = log2(given_cost / your_cost) 83 ``` 84 85 `0.0` = the given implementation (exactly, on every seed). `+1.0` = twice as 86 fast. Score history is 87 appended to `scores.jsonl` on every grade (timestamp, seed, cost, score): 88 time is recorded, never capped. 89 90 ## Rules 91 92 - `submission/` files must be self-contained C17 (libc only, no external 93 libraries, no syscalls in `json_unescape`'s hot path other than nothing: 94 the verifier links your function directly and will catch behavioral tricks). 95 - Any correct program is a valid submission. There is no style requirement. 96 - The grader in this directory is the official grader. --- [2] read --- 1 // solve.c — the given implementation of json_unescape. 2 // This is your starting point: a clean, production-quality scalar 3 // implementation of the kind found in mainstream JSON parsers. 4 // Make it faster. See ../spec.md for the contract. Grade with ../grade. 5 #include <stdint.h> 6 #include <stddef.h> 7 #include <string.h> 8 9 #define INVALID ((size_t)-1) 10 11 // Character class table: 0 = plain passthrough, 1 = backslash, 2 = invalid. 12 static const uint8_t CLASS[256] = { 13 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, // 0x00-0x0F 14 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, // 0x10-0x1F 15 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x20-0x2F ('"'=0x22) 16 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 17 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 18 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, // '\\'=0x5C 19 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 20 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 21 // 0x80-0xFF: all passthrough 22 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 23 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 24 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 25 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 26 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 27 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 28 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 29 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 30 }; 31 32 static int hex_val(uint8_t c) { 33 if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') return c - '0'; 34 if (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f') return c - 'a' + 10; 35 if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F') return c - 'A' + 10; 36 return -1; 37 } 38 39 static int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) { 40 unsigned v = 0; 41 for (int k = 0; k < 4; k++) { 42 int h = hex_val(p[k]); 43 if (h < 0) return -1; 44 v = (v << 4) | (unsigned)h; 45 } 46 *out = v; 47 return 0; 48 } 49 50 size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) { 51 size_t i = 0, o = 0; 52 while (i < in_len) { 53 // Copy a run of plain bytes. 54 size_t start = i; 55 while (i < in_len && CLASS[in[i]] == 0) i++; 56 if (i > start) { 57 memcpy(out + o, in + start, i - start); 58 o += i - start; 59 } 60 if (i >= in_len) break; 61 if (CLASS[in[i]] == 2) return INVALID; 62 // Backslash escape. 63 if (i + 1 >= in_len) return INVALID; 64 uint8_t e = in[i + 1]; 65 switch (e) { 66 case '"': out[o++] = '"'; i += 2; continue; 67 case '\\': out[o++] = '\\'; i += 2; continue; 68 case '/': out[o++] = '/'; i += 2; continue; 69 case 'b': out[o++] = '\b'; i += 2; continue; 70 case 'f': out[o++] = '\f'; i += 2; continue; 71 case 'n': out[o++] = '\n'; i += 2; continue; 72 case 'r': out[o++] = '\r'; i += 2; continue; 73 case 't': out[o++] = '\t'; i += 2; continue; 74 case 'u': break; 75 default: return INVALID; 76 } 77 // \uXXXX 78 if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID; 79 unsigned cu; 80 if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &cu) < 0) return INVALID; 81 i += 6; 82 unsigned cp; 83 if (cu >= 0xD800 && cu <= 0xDBFF) { 84 if (i + 6 > in_len || in[i] != '\\' || in[i + 1] != 'u') 85 return INVALID; 86 unsigned lo; 87 if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &lo) < 0) return INVALID; 88 if (lo < 0xDC00 || lo > 0xDFFF) return INVALID; 89 i += 6; 90 cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo - 0xDC00); 91 } else if (cu >= 0xDC00 && cu <= 0xDFFF) { 92 return INVALID; 93 } else { 94 cp = cu; 95 } 96 // Emit UTF-8. 97 if (cp < 0x80) { 98 out[o++] = (uint8_t)cp; 99 } else if (cp < 0x800) { 100 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cp >> 6)); 101 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F)); 102 } else if (cp < 0x10000) { 103 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xE0 | (cp >> 12)); 104 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F)); 105 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F)); 106 } else { 107 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18)); 108 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F)); 109 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F)); 110 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F)); 111 } 112 } 113 return o; 114 } --- [3] ls --- ./ submission/ solve.c verify/ gen_corpus.py given.c reference.c runner.c verify.c grade scores.jsonl spec.md 9 files, 2 directories Completed: 3 succeeded, 0 failed

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build 0.8s verify 0.9s PASS measure 6.1s 54,073,752 instructions (given: 54,161,656) SCORE +0.0023 (1.002x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

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--- [1] read --- 1 #!/usr/bin/env python3 2 import os, sys 3 sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "..", "..", "harness")) 4 from grade import main 5 main(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "json_unescape") --- [2] read --- 1 #!/usr/bin/env python3 2 """gen_corpus.py — generate the cost-measurement corpus for json-unescape. 3 4 Five escape-density regimes, fixed weights and sizes, seeded. The corpus format 5 is a sequence of records: 4-byte little-endian length, then that many bytes. 6 All records are VALID inputs (cost is measured on the accept path; the reject 7 path is covered by the verifier, and rejecting early is legitimately cheap). 8 9 Usage: gen_corpus.py SEED OUTFILE 10 """ 11 import random 12 import struct 13 import sys 14 15 # (name, weight, record_count, record_len_range) 16 REGIMES = [ 17 ("plain", 0.40, 120, (1024, 4096)), # ASCII text, no escapes 18 ("light", 0.25, 120, (1024, 4096)), # ~2% simple escapes 19 ("dense", 0.15, 120, (512, 2048)), # ~30% escapes of all kinds 20 ("unicode", 0.12, 120, (512, 2048)), # \uXXXX heavy (BMP) 21 ("surrogate", 0.08, 120, (512, 2048)), # surrogate pairs heavy 22 ] 23 24 SIMPLE = ['\\"', '\\\\', '\\/', '\\b', '\\f', '\\n', '\\r', '\\t'] 25 PLAIN_CHARS = ( 26 "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789" 27 " .,:;-_!?'()[]{}<>@#$%^&*+=|~`" 28 ) 29 30 31 def bmp_escape(rng): 32 while True: 33 v = rng.randrange(0x0000, 0x10000) 34 if not (0xD800 <= v <= 0xDFFF): 35 return "\\u%04x" % v 36 37 38 def surrogate_pair(rng): 39 hi = rng.randrange(0xD800, 0xDC00) 40 lo = rng.randrange(0xDC00, 0xE000) 41 return "\\u%04x\\u%04x" % (hi, lo) 42 43 44 def gen_record(rng, regime, length): 45 out = [] 46 n = 0 47 while n < length: 48 r = rng.random() 49 if regime == "plain": 50 run = rng.randrange(16, 64) 51 s = "".join(rng.choice(PLAIN_CHARS) for _ in range(run)) 52 elif regime == "light": 53 if r < 0.98: 54 run = rng.randrange(8, 48) 55 s = "".join(rng.choice(PLAIN_CHARS) for _ in range(run)) 56 else: 57 s = rng.choice(SIMPLE) 58 elif regime == "dense": 59 if r < 0.70: 60 run = rng.randrange(1, 6) 61 s = "".join(rng.choice(PLAIN_CHARS) for _ in range(run)) 62 elif r < 0.92: 63 s = rng.choice(SIMPLE) 64 else: 65 s = bmp_escape(rng) 66 elif regime == "unicode": 67 if r < 0.45: 68 run = rng.randrange(1, 8) 69 s = "".join(rng.choice(PLAIN_CHARS) for _ in range(run)) 70 else: 71 s = bmp_escape(rng) 72 else: # surrogate 73 if r < 0.45: 74 run = rng.randrange(1, 8) 75 s = "".join(rng.choice(PLAIN_CHARS) for _ in range(run)) 76 elif r < 0.75: 77 s = surrogate_pair(rng) 78 else: 79 s = bmp_escape(rng) 80 out.append(s) 81 n += len(s) 82 return "".join(out).encode("ascii") 83 84 85 def main(): 86 seed = int(sys.argv[1]) 87 outfile = sys.argv[2] 88 rng = random.Random(seed) 89 records = [] 90 for name, _w, count, (lo, hi) in REGIMES: 91 for _ in range(count): 92 records.append(gen_record(rng, name, rng.randrange(lo, hi))) 93 rng.shuffle(records) 94 with open(outfile, "wb") as f: 95 for rec in records: 96 f.write(struct.pack("<I", len(rec))) 97 f.write(rec) 98 total = sum(len(r) for r in records) 99 print(f"corpus: {len(records)} records, {total} bytes, seed {seed}") 100 101 102 if __name__ == "__main__": 103 main() Completed: 2 succeeded, 0 failed

{"command": "git status --short", "intent": "Check repository status before making changes", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 120000, "wake": false}

fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git --- Command finished with exit code: 128 --- Exit code: 128

{"content": "#include <stdint.h>\n#include <stddef.h>\n#include <string.h>\n\n#define INVALID ((size_t)-1)\n#define LIKELY(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1)\n#define UNLIKELY(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)\n\ntypedef struct { uint64_t v; } __attribute__((packed, may_alias)) unaligned_u64;\ntypedef struct { uint32_t v; } __attribute__((packed, may_alias)) unaligned_u32;\n\nstatic inline uint64_t load64(const void *p) {\n return ((const unaligned_u64 *)p)->v;\n}\n\nstatic inline void store64(void *p, uint64_t v) {\n ((unaligned_u64 *)p)->v = v;\n}\n\nstatic inline void store32(void *p, uint32_t v) {\n ((unaligned_u32 *)p)->v = v;\n}\n\nstatic uint16_t HEXPAIR[1u << 16];\nstatic uint32_t BMP_UTF8[1u << 16];\nstatic uint32_t SURR_UTF8[1u << 20];\n\nstatic const uint8_t ESCAPE_MAP[256] = {\n ['\"'] = '\"',\n ['\\\\'] = '\\\\',\n ['/'] = '/',\n ['b'] = '\\b',\n ['f'] = '\\f',\n ['n'] = '\\n',\n ['r'] = '\\r',\n ['t'] = '\\t',\n};\n\n__attribute__((constructor))\nstatic void init_tables(void) {\n static const uint8_t hex_chars[22] = {\n '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9',\n 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f',\n 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F',\n };\n static const uint8_t hex_vals[22] = {\n 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,\n 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,\n 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15,\n };\n\n memset(HEXPAIR, 0xFF, sizeof(HEXPAIR));\n for (unsigned i = 0; i < 22; ++i) {\n unsigned hi = (unsigned)hex_chars[i] << 8;\n unsigned hv = (unsigned)hex_vals[i] << 4;\n for (unsigned j = 0; j < 22; ++j) {\n HEXPAIR[hi | hex_chars[j]] = (uint16_t)(hv | hex_vals[j]);\n }\n }\n\n for (unsigned cu = 0; cu < 0x10000u; ++cu) {\n uint32_t pack;\n if (cu < 0x80u) {\n pack = (1u << 24) | cu;\n } else if (cu < 0x800u) {\n pack = (2u << 24)\n | (0xC0u | (cu >> 6))\n | ((0x80u | (cu & 0x3Fu)) << 8);\n } else if (cu >= 0xD800u && cu <= 0xDBFFu) {\n pack = 0xFF000000u;\n } else if (cu >= 0xDC00u && cu <= 0xDFFFu) {\n pack = 0xFE000000u;\n } else {\n pack = (3u << 24)\n | (0xE0u | (cu >> 12))\n | ((0x80u | ((cu >> 6) & 0x3Fu)) << 8)\n | ((0x80u | (cu & 0x3Fu)) << 16);\n }\n BMP_UTF8[cu] = pack;\n }\n\n for (unsigned hi = 0; hi < 0x400u; ++hi) {\n unsigned base = hi << 10;\n unsigned cp_base = 0x10000u + (hi << 10);\n for (unsigned lo = 0; lo < 0x400u; ++lo) {\n unsigned cp = cp_base + lo;\n SURR_UTF8[base | lo] = (0xF0u | (cp >> 18))\n | ((0x80u | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3Fu)) << 8)\n | ((0x80u | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3Fu)) << 16)\n | ((0x80u | (cp & 0x3Fu)) << 24);\n }\n }\n}\n\nstatic inline uint64_t has_byte(uint64_t x, uint64_t repeated) {\n const uint64_t ones = 0x0101010101010101ULL;\n const uint64_t highs = 0x8080808080808080ULL;\n uint64_t y = x ^ repeated;\n return (y - ones) & ~y & highs;\n}\n\nstatic inline uint64_t has_byte_lt_0x20(uint64_t x) {\n return (x - 0x2020202020202020ULL) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL;\n}\n\nstatic inline uint64_t needs_slow(uint64_t x) {\n return has_byte_lt_0x20(x)\n | has_byte(x, 0x2222222222222222ULL)\n | has_byte(x, 0x5C5C5C5C5C5C5C5CULL);\n}\n\nsize_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n const uint8_t *src = in;\n const uint8_t *const end = in + in_len;\n uint8_t *dst = out;\n\n while (LIKELY(src + 16 <= end)) {\n uint64_t w0 = load64(src);\n uint64_t w1 = load64(src + 8);\n uint64_t m0 = needs_slow(w0);\n uint64_t m1 = needs_slow(w1);\n if (LIKELY((m0 | m1) == 0)) {\n store64(dst, w0);\n store64(dst + 8, w1);\n src += 16;\n ... [2496 characters truncated for page size]

Updated submission/solve.c (207 lines): 1- // solve.c — the given implementation of json_unescape. 2- // This is your starting point: a clean, production-quality scalar 3- // implementation of the kind found in mainstream JSON parsers. 4- // Make it faster. See ../spec.md for the contract. Grade with ../grade. 6+ #define LIKELY(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1) 7+ #define UNLIKELY(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0) 9+ typedef struct { uint64_t v; } __attribute__((packed, may_alias)) unaligned_u64; 10+ typedef struct { uint32_t v; } __attribute__((packed, may_alias)) unaligned_u32; 11- // Character class table: 0 = plain passthrough, 1 = backslash, 2 = invalid. 12- static const uint8_t CLASS[256] = { 13- 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, // 0x00-0x0F 14- 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, // 0x10-0x1F 15- 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x20-0x2F ('"'=0x22) 16- 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 17- 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 18- 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, // '\\'=0x5C 19- 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 20- 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 21- // 0x80-0xFF: all passthrough 22- 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ...

{"command": "./grade", "intent": "Grade optimized implementation after first major rewrite", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.5s 35,978,405 instructions (given: 52,979,527) SCORE +0.5583 (1.473x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

{"intent": "Use SSE2 block scanning and prefix copy without rescanning", "patch_text": "*** Begin Patch\n*** Update File: submission/solve.c\n@@\n #include <stdint.h>\n #include <stddef.h>\n #include <string.h>\n+#include <emmintrin.h>\n@@\n static inline uint64_t needs_slow(uint64_t x) {\n return has_byte_lt_0x20(x)\n | has_byte(x, 0x2222222222222222ULL)\n | has_byte(x, 0x5C5C5C5C5C5C5C5CULL);\n }\n+\n+static inline unsigned needs_slow16(__m128i v, __m128i zero, __m128i ctrl_max,\n+ __m128i quote, __m128i slash) {\n+ __m128i ctrl = _mm_cmpeq_epi8(_mm_subs_epu8(v, ctrl_max), zero);\n+ __m128i q = _mm_cmpeq_epi8(v, quote);\n+ __m128i s = _mm_cmpeq_epi8(v, slash);\n+ return (unsigned)_mm_movemask_epi8(_mm_or_si128(ctrl, _mm_or_si128(q, s)));\n+}\n \n size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n const uint8_t *src = in;\n const uint8_t *const end = in + in_len;\n uint8_t *dst = out;\n-\n- while (LIKELY(src + 16 <= end)) {\n- uint64_t w0 = load64(src);\n- uint64_t w1 = load64(src + 8);\n- uint64_t m0 = needs_slow(w0);\n- uint64_t m1 = needs_slow(w1);\n- if (LIKELY((m0 | m1) == 0)) {\n- store64(dst, w0);\n- store64(dst + 8, w1);\n- src += 16;\n- dst += 16;\n- continue;\n- }\n- if (m0 == 0) {\n- store64(dst, w0);\n- src += 8;\n- dst += 8;\n- }\n- break;\n- }\n+\n+ const __m128i zero = _mm_setzero_si128();\n+ const __m128i ctrl_max = _mm_set1_epi8(0x1F);\n+ const __m128i quote = _mm_set1_epi8('\"');\n+ const __m128i slash = _mm_set1_epi8('\\\\');\n \n while (src < end) {\n- while (LIKELY(src + 8 <= end)) {\n+ while (LIKELY(src + 16 <= end)) {\n+ __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)src);\n+ unsigned mask = needs_slow16(v, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n+ if (LIKELY(mask == 0)) {\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v);\n+ src += 16;\n+ dst += 16;\n+ continue;\n+ }\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v);\n+ unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask);\n+ src += n;\n+ dst += n;\n+ break;\n+ }\n+\n+ while (LIKELY(src + 8 <= end)) {\n uint64_t w = load64(src);\n- if (LIKELY(needs_slow(w) == 0)) {\n+ uint64_t mask = needs_slow(w);\n+ if (LIKELY(mask == 0)) {\n store64(dst, w);\n src += 8;\n dst += 8;\n continue;\n }\n+ store64(dst, w);\n+ unsigned n = (unsigned)(__builtin_ctzll(mask) >> 3);\n+ src += n;\n+ dst += n;\n break;\n }\n*** End Patch"}

✓ submission/solve.c: modified (2 hunks) 4+ #include <emmintrin.h> 113+ static inline unsigned needs_slow16(__m128i v, __m128i zero, __m128i ctrl_max, 114+ __m128i quote, __m128i slash) { 115+ __m128i ctrl = _mm_cmpeq_epi8(_mm_subs_epu8(v, ctrl_max), zero); 116+ __m128i q = _mm_cmpeq_epi8(v, quote); 117+ __m128i s = _mm_cmpeq_epi8(v, slash); 118+ return (unsigned)_mm_movemask_epi8(_mm_or_si128(ctrl, _mm_or_si128(q, s))); 119+ } 117- while (LIKELY(src + 16 <= end)) { 118- uint64_t w0 = load64(src); 119- uint64_t w1 = load64(src + 8); 120- uint64_t m0 = needs_slow(w0); 121- uint64_t m1 = needs_slow(w1); 122- if (LIKELY((m0 | m1) == 0)) { 123- store64(dst, w0); 124- store64(dst + 8, w1); 125- src += 16; 126- dst += 16; 127- continue; 128- } 129- if (m0 == 0) { 130- store64(dst, w0); 131- src += 8; 132- dst += 8; 133- } 134- break; 135- } 126+ const __m128i zero = _mm_setzero_si128(); 127+ const __m128i ctrl_max = _mm_set1_epi8(0x1F); 128+ const __m128i quote = _mm_set1_epi8('"'); ... (diff truncated)

{"command": "./grade", "intent": "Grade SSE2 scanning optimization", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 0.8s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.5s 32,705,700 instructions (given: 52,611,717) SCORE +0.6858 (1.609x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

{"intent": "Use 16-bit unaligned loads for hex pair lookups and surrogate prefix checks", "patch_text": "*** Begin Patch\n*** Update File: submission/solve.c\n@@\n typedef struct { uint64_t v; } __attribute__((packed, may_alias)) unaligned_u64;\n typedef struct { uint32_t v; } __attribute__((packed, may_alias)) unaligned_u32;\n+typedef struct { uint16_t v; } __attribute__((packed, may_alias)) unaligned_u16;\n+\n+enum { U16_BS_U = (uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'u' << 8) };\n+\n+static inline uint16_t load16(const void *p) {\n+ return ((const unaligned_u16 *)p)->v;\n+}\n@@\n memset(HEXPAIR, 0xFF, sizeof(HEXPAIR));\n for (unsigned i = 0; i < 22; ++i) {\n- unsigned hi = (unsigned)hex_chars[i] << 8;\n+ unsigned lo = (unsigned)hex_chars[i];\n unsigned hv = (unsigned)hex_vals[i] << 4;\n for (unsigned j = 0; j < 22; ++j) {\n- HEXPAIR[hi | hex_chars[j]] = (uint16_t)(hv | hex_vals[j]);\n+ HEXPAIR[lo | ((unsigned)hex_chars[j] << 8)] = (uint16_t)(hv | hex_vals[j]);\n }\n }\n@@\n- unsigned hi = HEXPAIR[((unsigned)src[2] << 8) | src[3]];\n- unsigned lo = HEXPAIR[((unsigned)src[4] << 8) | src[5]];\n+ unsigned hi = HEXPAIR[load16(src + 2)];\n+ unsigned lo = HEXPAIR[load16(src + 4)];\n if (UNLIKELY(((hi | lo) & 0x100u) != 0)) return INVALID;\n@@\n- if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 6 || src[0] != '\\\\' || src[1] != 'u')) {\n+ if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 6 || load16(src) != U16_BS_U)) {\n return INVALID;\n }\n \n- unsigned hi2 = HEXPAIR[((unsigned)src[2] << 8) | src[3]];\n- unsigned lo2 = HEXPAIR[((unsigned)src[4] << 8) | src[5]];\n+ unsigned hi2 = HEXPAIR[load16(src + 2)];\n+ unsigned lo2 = HEXPAIR[load16(src + 4)];\n if (UNLIKELY(((hi2 | lo2) & 0x100u) != 0)) return INVALID;\n*** End Patch"}

✓ submission/solve.c: modified (4 hunks) 12+ typedef struct { uint16_t v; } __attribute__((packed, may_alias)) unaligned_u16; 14+ enum { U16_BS_U = (uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'u' << 8) }; 16+ static inline uint16_t load16(const void *p) { 17+ return ((const unaligned_u16 *)p)->v; 18+ } 55- unsigned hi = (unsigned)hex_chars[i] << 8; 62+ unsigned lo = (unsigned)hex_chars[i]; 58- HEXPAIR[hi | hex_chars[j]] = (uint16_t)(hv | hex_vals[j]); 65+ HEXPAIR[lo | ((unsigned)hex_chars[j] << 8)] = (uint16_t)(hv | hex_vals[j]); 188- unsigned hi = HEXPAIR[((unsigned)src[2] << 8) | src[3]]; 189- unsigned lo = HEXPAIR[((unsigned)src[4] << 8) | src[5]]; 195+ unsigned hi = HEXPAIR[load16(src + 2)]; 196+ unsigned lo = HEXPAIR[load16(src + 4)]; 204- if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 6 || src[0] != '\\' || src[1] != 'u')) { 211+ if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 6 || load16(src) != U16_BS_U)) { 208- unsigned hi2 = HEXPAIR[((unsigned)src[2] << 8) | src[3]]; 209- unsigned lo2 = HEXPAIR[((unsigned)src[4] << 8) | src[5]]; 215+ unsigned hi2 = HEXPAIR[load16(src + 2)]; 216+ unsigned lo2 = HEXPAIR[load16(src + 4)];

{"command": "./grade", "intent": "Grade unicode-path micro-optimization", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 0.8s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.6s 31,107,477 instructions (given: 51,873,251) SCORE +0.7377 (1.668x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

{"intent": "Jump directly to escape handling after locating a special byte", "patch_text": "*** Begin Patch\n*** Update File: submission/solve.c\n@@\n while (LIKELY(src + 16 <= end)) {\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)src);\n unsigned mask = needs_slow16(v, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n if (LIKELY(mask == 0)) {\n _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v);\n@@\n _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v);\n unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask);\n src += n;\n dst += n;\n- break;\n+ goto handle_special;\n }\n \n while (LIKELY(src + 8 <= end)) {\n uint64_t w = load64(src);\n uint64_t mask = needs_slow(w);\n@@\n store64(dst, w);\n unsigned n = (unsigned)(__builtin_ctzll(mask) >> 3);\n src += n;\n dst += n;\n- break;\n+ goto handle_special;\n }\n@@\n }\n \n if (src == end) break;\n+handle_special:\n if (UNLIKELY(*src != '\\\\')) return INVALID;\n if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 2)) return INVALID;\n*** End Patch"}

✓ submission/solve.c: modified (4 hunks) 152- break; 152+ goto handle_special; 168- break; 168+ goto handle_special; 182+ handle_special:

{"command": "./grade", "intent": "Grade direct-jump scan optimization", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.6s 20,232,843 instructions (given: 51,396,611) SCORE +1.3450 (2.540x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

{"file_path": "submission/solve.c", "intent": "Review current optimized implementation for further opportunities", "limit": 260, "start_line": 1}

1 #include <stdint.h> 2 #include <stddef.h> 3 #include <string.h> 4 #include <emmintrin.h> 5 6 #define INVALID ((size_t)-1) 7 #define LIKELY(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 1) 8 #define UNLIKELY(x) __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0) 9 10 typedef struct { uint64_t v; } __attribute__((packed, may_alias)) unaligned_u64; 11 typedef struct { uint32_t v; } __attribute__((packed, may_alias)) unaligned_u32; 12 typedef struct { uint16_t v; } __attribute__((packed, may_alias)) unaligned_u16; 13 14 enum { U16_BS_U = (uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'u' << 8) }; 15 16 static inline uint16_t load16(const void *p) { 17 return ((const unaligned_u16 *)p)->v; 18 } 19 20 static inline uint64_t load64(const void *p) { 21 return ((const unaligned_u64 *)p)->v; 22 } 23 24 static inline void store64(void *p, uint64_t v) { 25 ((unaligned_u64 *)p)->v = v; 26 } 27 28 static inline void store32(void *p, uint32_t v) { 29 ((unaligned_u32 *)p)->v = v; 30 } 31 32 static uint16_t HEXPAIR[1u << 16]; 33 static uint32_t BMP_UTF8[1u << 16]; 34 static uint32_t SURR_UTF8[1u << 20]; 35 36 static const uint8_t ESCAPE_MAP[256] = { 37 ['"'] = '"', 38 ['\\'] = '\\', 39 ['/'] = '/', 40 ['b'] = '\b', 41 ['f'] = '\f', 42 ['n'] = '\n', 43 ['r'] = '\r', 44 ['t'] = '\t', 45 }; 46 47 __attribute__((constructor)) 48 static void init_tables(void) { 49 static const uint8_t hex_chars[22] = { 50 '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 51 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 52 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 53 }; 54 static const uint8_t hex_vals[22] = { 55 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 56 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 57 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 58 }; 59 60 memset(HEXPAIR, 0xFF, sizeof(HEXPAIR)); 61 for (unsigned i = 0; i < 22; ++i) { 62 unsigned lo = (unsigned)hex_chars[i]; 63 unsigned hv = (unsigned)hex_vals[i] << 4; 64 for (unsigned j = 0; j < 22; ++j) { 65 HEXPAIR[lo | ((unsigned)hex_chars[j] << 8)] = (uint16_t)(hv | hex_vals[j]); 66 } 67 } 68 69 for (unsigned cu = 0; cu < 0x10000u; ++cu) { 70 uint32_t pack; 71 if (cu < 0x80u) { 72 pack = (1u << 24) | cu; 73 } else if (cu < 0x800u) { 74 pack = (2u << 24) 75 | (0xC0u | (cu >> 6)) 76 | ((0x80u | (cu & 0x3Fu)) << 8); 77 } else if (cu >= 0xD800u && cu <= 0xDBFFu) { 78 pack = 0xFF000000u; 79 } else if (cu >= 0xDC00u && cu <= 0xDFFFu) { 80 pack = 0xFE000000u; 81 } else { 82 pack = (3u << 24) 83 | (0xE0u | (cu >> 12)) 84 | ((0x80u | ((cu >> 6) & 0x3Fu)) << 8) 85 | ((0x80u | (cu & 0x3Fu)) << 16); 86 } 87 BMP_UTF8[cu] = pack; 88 } 89 90 for (unsigned hi = 0; hi < 0x400u; ++hi) { 91 unsigned base = hi << 10; 92 unsigned cp_base = 0x10000u + (hi << 10); 93 for (unsigned lo = 0; lo < 0x400u; ++lo) { 94 unsigned cp = cp_base + lo; 95 SURR_UTF8[base | lo] = (0xF0u | (cp >> 18)) 96 | ((0x80u | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3Fu)) << 8) 97 | ((0x80u | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3Fu)) << 16) 98 | ((0x80u | (cp & 0x3Fu)) << 24); 99 } 100 } 101 } 102 103 static inline uint64_t has_byte(uint64_t x, uint64_t repeated) { 104 const uint64_t ones = 0x0101010101010101ULL; 105 const uint64_t highs = 0x8080808080808080ULL; 106 uint64_t y = x ^ repeated; 107 return (y - ones) & ~y & highs; 108 } 109 110 static inline uint64_t has_byte_lt_0x20(uint64_t x) { 111 return (x - 0x2020202020202020ULL) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL; 112 } 113 114 static inline uint64_t needs_slow(uint64_t x) { 115 return has_byte_lt_0x20(x) 116 | has_byte(x, 0x2222222222222222ULL) 117 | has_byte(x, 0x5C5C5C5C5C5C5C5CULL); 118 } 119 120 static inline unsigned needs_slow16(__m128i v, __m128i zero, __m128i ctrl_max, 121 __m128i quote, __m128i slash) { 122 __m128i ctrl = _mm_cmpeq_epi8(_mm_subs_epu8(v, ctrl_max), zero); 123 __m128i q = _mm_cmpeq_epi8(v, quote); 124 __m128i s = _mm_cmpeq_epi8(v, slash); 125 return (unsigned)_mm_movemask_epi8(_mm_or_si128(ctrl, _mm_or_si128(q, s))); 126 } 127 128 size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) { 129 const uint8_t *src = in; 130 const uint8_t *const end = in + in_len; 131 uint8_t *dst = out; 132 133 const __m128i zero = _mm_setzero_si128(); 134 const __m128i ctrl_max = _mm_set1_epi8(0x1F); 135 const __m128i quote = _mm_set1_epi8('"'); 136 const __m128i slash = _mm_set1_epi8('\\'); 137 138 while (src < end) { 139 while (LIKELY(src + 16 <= end)) { 140 __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)src); 141 unsigned mask = needs_slow16(v, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash); 142 if (LIKELY(mask == 0)) { 143 _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v); 144 src += 16; 145 dst += 16; 146 continue; 147 } 148 _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v); 149 unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask); 150 src += n; 151 dst += n; 152 goto handle_special; 153 } 154 155 while (LIKELY(src + 8 <= end)) { 156 uint64_t w = load64(src); 157 uint64_t mask = needs_slow(w); 158 if (LIKELY(mask == 0)) { 159 store64(dst, w); 160 src += 8; 161 dst += 8; 162 continue; 163 } 164 store64(dst, w); 165 unsigned n = (unsigned)(__builtin_ctzll(mask) >> 3); 166 src += n; 167 dst += n; 168 goto handle_special; 169 } 170 171 while (src < end) { 172 uint8_t c = *src; 173 if (LIKELY(c >= 0x20 && c != '"' && c != '\\')) { 174 *dst++ = c; 175 ++src; 176 continue; 177 } 178 break; 179 } 180 181 if (src == end) break; 182 handle_special: 183 if (UNLIKELY(*src != '\\')) return INVALID; 184 if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 2)) return INVALID; 185 186 uint8_t e = src[1]; 187 uint8_t mapped = ESCAPE_MAP[e]; 188 if (LIKELY(mapped != 0)) { 189 *dst++ = mapped; 190 src += 2; 191 continue; 192 } 193 if (UNLIKELY(e != 'u')) return INVALID; 194 if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 6)) return INVALID; 195 196 unsigned hi = HEXPAIR[load16(src + 2)]; 197 unsigned lo = HEXPAIR[load16(src + 4)]; 198 if (UNLIKELY(((hi | lo) & 0x100u) != 0)) return INVALID; 199 200 unsigned cu = (hi << 8) | lo; 201 uint32_t pack = BMP_UTF8[cu]; 202 unsigned len = pack >> 24; 203 src += 6; 204 205 if (LIKELY(len <= 3u)) { 206 store32(dst, pack); 207 dst += len; 208 continue; 209 } 210 if (UNLIKELY(len != 0xFFu)) return INVALID; 211 212 if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 6 || load16(src) != U16_BS_U)) { 213 return INVALID; 214 } 215 216 unsigned hi2 = HEXPAIR[load16(src + 2)]; 217 unsigned lo2 = HEXPAIR[load16(src + 4)]; 218 if (UNLIKELY(((hi2 | lo2) & 0x100u) != 0)) return INVALID; 219 220 unsigned cu2 = (hi2 << 8) | lo2; 221 unsigned lo_sur = cu2 - 0xDC00u; 222 if (UNLIKELY(lo_sur > 0x3FFu)) return INVALID; 223 224 store32(dst, SURR_UTF8[((cu - 0xD800u) << 10) | lo_sur]); 225 dst += 4; 226 src += 6; 227 } 228 229 return (size_t)(dst - out); 230 }

{"intent": "Unroll SIMD scan to 32-byte chunks for long plain runs", "patch_text": "*** Begin Patch\n*** Update File: submission/solve.c\n@@\n const __m128i slash = _mm_set1_epi8('\\\\');\n \n while (src < end) {\n+ while (LIKELY(src + 32 <= end)) {\n+ __m128i v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)src);\n+ unsigned mask0 = needs_slow16(v0, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n+ if (mask0 != 0) {\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n+ unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask0);\n+ src += n;\n+ dst += n;\n+ goto handle_special;\n+ }\n+\n+ __m128i v1 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)(src + 16));\n+ unsigned mask1 = needs_slow16(v1, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n+ if (LIKELY(mask1 == 0)) {\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1);\n+ src += 32;\n+ dst += 32;\n+ continue;\n+ }\n+\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1);\n+ unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask1);\n+ src += 16 + n;\n+ dst += 16 + n;\n+ goto handle_special;\n+ }\n+\n while (LIKELY(src + 16 <= end)) {\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)src);\n unsigned mask = needs_slow16(v, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n if (LIKELY(mask == 0)) {\n*** End Patch"}

✓ submission/solve.c: modified (1 hunks) 139+ while (LIKELY(src + 32 <= end)) { 140+ __m128i v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)src); 141+ unsigned mask0 = needs_slow16(v0, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash); 142+ if (mask0 != 0) { 143+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0); 144+ unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask0); 145+ src += n; 146+ dst += n; 147+ goto handle_special; 148+ } 150+ __m128i v1 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)(src + 16)); 151+ unsigned mask1 = needs_slow16(v1, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash); 152+ if (LIKELY(mask1 == 0)) { 153+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0); 154+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1); 155+ src += 32; 156+ dst += 32; 157+ continue; 158+ } 160+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0); 161+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1); 162+ unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask1); 163+ src += 16 + n; 164+ dst += 16 + n; 165+ goto handle_special; 166+ }

{"command": "./grade", "intent": "Grade 32-byte SIMD unroll optimization", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.5s 17,785,013 instructions (given: 50,730,096) SCORE +1.5122 (2.852x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

{"intent": "Add 64-byte SIMD unroll for very long plain runs", "patch_text": "*** Begin Patch\n*** Update File: submission/solve.c\n@@\n const __m128i slash = _mm_set1_epi8('\\\\');\n \n while (src < end) {\n+ while (LIKELY(src + 64 <= end)) {\n+ __m128i v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)src);\n+ unsigned mask0 = needs_slow16(v0, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n+ if (mask0 != 0) {\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n+ unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask0);\n+ src += n;\n+ dst += n;\n+ goto handle_special;\n+ }\n+\n+ __m128i v1 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)(src + 16));\n+ unsigned mask1 = needs_slow16(v1, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n+ if (mask1 != 0) {\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1);\n+ unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask1);\n+ src += 16 + n;\n+ dst += 16 + n;\n+ goto handle_special;\n+ }\n+\n+ __m128i v2 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)(src + 32));\n+ unsigned mask2 = needs_slow16(v2, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n+ if (mask2 != 0) {\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1);\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 32), v2);\n+ unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask2);\n+ src += 32 + n;\n+ dst += 32 + n;\n+ goto handle_special;\n+ }\n+\n+ __m128i v3 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)(src + 48));\n+ unsigned mask3 = needs_slow16(v3, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n+ if (LIKELY(mask3 == 0)) {\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1);\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 32), v2);\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 48), v3);\n+ src += 64;\n+ dst += 64;\n+ continue;\n+ }\n+\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1);\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 32), v2);\n+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 48), v3);\n+ unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask3);\n+ src += 48 + n;\n+ dst += 48 + n;\n+ goto handle_special;\n+ }\n+\n while (LIKELY(src + 32 <= end)) {\n __m128i v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)src);\n unsigned mask0 = needs_slow16(v0, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n*** End Patch"}

✓ submission/solve.c: modified (1 hunks) 139+ while (LIKELY(src + 64 <= end)) { 140+ __m128i v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)src); 141+ unsigned mask0 = needs_slow16(v0, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash); 142+ if (mask0 != 0) { 143+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0); 144+ unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask0); 145+ src += n; 146+ dst += n; 147+ goto handle_special; 148+ } 150+ __m128i v1 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)(src + 16)); 151+ unsigned mask1 = needs_slow16(v1, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash); 152+ if (mask1 != 0) { 153+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0); 154+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1); 155+ unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask1); 156+ src += 16 + n; 157+ dst += 16 + n; 158+ goto handle_special; 159+ } 161+ __m128i v2 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)(src + 32)); 162+ unsigned mask2 = needs_slow16(v2, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash); 163+ if (mask2 != 0) { 164+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0); 165+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1); 166+ _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 32), v2); 167+ unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask2); 168+ src += 32 + n; 169+ dst += 32 + n; 170+ goto handle_special; ... (diff truncated)

{"command": "./grade", "intent": "Grade 64-byte SIMD unroll optimization", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 1.0s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.7s 18,852,002 instructions (given: 53,078,557) SCORE +1.4934 (2.816x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

{"intent": "Revert slower 64-byte SIMD unroll", "patch_text": "*** Begin Patch\n*** Update File: submission/solve.c\n@@\n- while (LIKELY(src + 64 <= end)) {\n- __m128i v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)src);\n- unsigned mask0 = needs_slow16(v0, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n- if (mask0 != 0) {\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n- unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask0);\n- src += n;\n- dst += n;\n- goto handle_special;\n- }\n-\n- __m128i v1 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)(src + 16));\n- unsigned mask1 = needs_slow16(v1, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n- if (mask1 != 0) {\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1);\n- unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask1);\n- src += 16 + n;\n- dst += 16 + n;\n- goto handle_special;\n- }\n-\n- __m128i v2 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)(src + 32));\n- unsigned mask2 = needs_slow16(v2, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n- if (mask2 != 0) {\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1);\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 32), v2);\n- unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask2);\n- src += 32 + n;\n- dst += 32 + n;\n- goto handle_special;\n- }\n-\n- __m128i v3 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)(src + 48));\n- unsigned mask3 = needs_slow16(v3, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash);\n- if (LIKELY(mask3 == 0)) {\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1);\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 32), v2);\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 48), v3);\n- src += 64;\n- dst += 64;\n- continue;\n- }\n-\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0);\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1);\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 32), v2);\n- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 48), v3);\n- unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask3);\n- src += 48 + n;\n- dst += 48 + n;\n- goto handle_special;\n- }\n-\n while (LIKELY(src + 32 <= end)) {\n*** End Patch"}

✓ submission/solve.c: modified (1 hunks) 139- while (LIKELY(src + 64 <= end)) { 140- __m128i v0 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)src); 141- unsigned mask0 = needs_slow16(v0, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash); 142- if (mask0 != 0) { 143- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0); 144- unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask0); 145- src += n; 146- dst += n; 147- goto handle_special; 148- } 150- __m128i v1 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)(src + 16)); 151- unsigned mask1 = needs_slow16(v1, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash); 152- if (mask1 != 0) { 153- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0); 154- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1); 155- unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask1); 156- src += 16 + n; 157- dst += 16 + n; 158- goto handle_special; 159- } 161- __m128i v2 = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i *)(src + 32)); 162- unsigned mask2 = needs_slow16(v2, zero, ctrl_max, quote, slash); 163- if (mask2 != 0) { 164- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)dst, v0); 165- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 16), v1); 166- _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i *)(dst + 32), v2); 167- unsigned n = (unsigned)__builtin_ctz(mask2); 168- src += 32 + n; 169- dst += 32 + n; 170- goto handle_special; ... (diff truncated)

{"command": "./grade", "intent": "Confirm best score after reverting slower unroll", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.6s 18,471,529 instructions (given: 52,418,428) SCORE +1.5048 (2.838x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

{"intent": "Inspect generated score history and possible profiling artifacts", "tool_calls": [{"tool": "functions.read", "file_path": "scores.jsonl", "start_line": 1, "limit": 50, "intent": "Read recent score history"}, {"tool": "functions.ls", "path": ".", "ignore": ["submission", "verify"], "intent": "List top-level generated files"}]}

--- [1] read --- 1 {"ts": "2026-07-19T02:36:04Z", "seed": 28561, "cost": 53276456, "given_cost": 53276456, "score": 0.0, "full_gate": false} 2 {"ts": "2026-07-19T02:36:29Z", "seed": 28581, "cost": 54073752, "given_cost": 54161656, "score": 0.0023, "full_gate": false} 3 {"ts": "2026-07-19T02:37:42Z", "seed": 28659, "cost": 35978405, "given_cost": 52979527, "score": 0.5583, "full_gate": false} 4 {"ts": "2026-07-19T02:38:26Z", "seed": 28702, "cost": 32705700, "given_cost": 52611717, "score": 0.6858, "full_gate": false} 5 {"ts": "2026-07-19T02:38:57Z", "seed": 28734, "cost": 31107477, "given_cost": 51873251, "score": 0.7377, "full_gate": false} 6 {"ts": "2026-07-19T02:39:08Z", "seed": 28745, "cost": 20232843, "given_cost": 51396611, "score": 1.345, "full_gate": false} 7 {"ts": "2026-07-19T02:39:26Z", "seed": 28762, "cost": 17785013, "given_cost": 50730096, "score": 1.5122, "full_gate": false} 8 {"ts": "2026-07-19T02:39:38Z", "seed": 28775, "cost": 18852002, "given_cost": 53078557, "score": 1.4934, "full_gate": false} 9 {"ts": "2026-07-19T02:39:50Z", "seed": 28787, "cost": 18471529, "given_cost": 52418428, "score": 1.5048, "full_gate": false} --- [2] ls --- ./ grade scores.jsonl spec.md 3 files, 0 directories Completed: 2 succeeded, 0 failed

{"command": "./grade --seed 42", "intent": "Establish fixed-seed score for current best implementation", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 1.0s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.6s 18,310,209 instructions (given: 56,969,013) SCORE +1.6375 (3.111x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

{"intent": "Bias escape dispatch toward unicode-heavy path for A/B test", "patch_text": "*** Begin Patch\n*** Update File: submission/solve.c\n@@\n if (UNLIKELY(*src != '\\\\')) return INVALID;\n if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 2)) return INVALID;\n \n uint8_t e = src[1];\n- uint8_t mapped = ESCAPE_MAP[e];\n- if (LIKELY(mapped != 0)) {\n- *dst++ = mapped;\n- src += 2;\n- continue;\n- }\n- if (UNLIKELY(e != 'u')) return INVALID;\n+ if (LIKELY(e == 'u')) goto handle_unicode;\n+\n+ uint8_t mapped = ESCAPE_MAP[e];\n+ if (LIKELY(mapped != 0)) {\n+ *dst++ = mapped;\n+ src += 2;\n+ continue;\n+ }\n+ return INVALID;\n+\n+ handle_unicode:\n if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 6)) return INVALID;\n*** End Patch"}

✓ submission/solve.c: modified (1 hunks) 216+ if (LIKELY(e == 'u')) goto handle_unicode; 222- if (UNLIKELY(e != 'u')) return INVALID; 224+ return INVALID; 226+ handle_unicode:

{"command": "./grade --seed 42", "intent": "A/B test unicode-first escape dispatch on fixed seed", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 0.6s 17,511,142 instructions (given: 56,969,013) SCORE +1.7019 (3.253x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

{"command": "./grade", "intent": "Validate unicode-first dispatch improvement on fresh seed", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.5s 18,082,529 instructions (given: 53,593,787) SCORE +1.5675 (2.964x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

{"intent": "Replace escape dispatch with 16-bit pair lookup table", "patch_text": "*** Begin Patch\n*** Update File: submission/solve.c\n@@\n static uint16_t HEXPAIR[1u << 16];\n+static uint16_t ESCAPE2[1u << 16];\n static uint32_t BMP_UTF8[1u << 16];\n static uint32_t SURR_UTF8[1u << 20];\n-\n-static const uint8_t ESCAPE_MAP[256] = {\n- ['\"'] = '\"',\n- ['\\\\'] = '\\\\',\n- ['/'] = '/',\n- ['b'] = '\\b',\n- ['f'] = '\\f',\n- ['n'] = '\\n',\n- ['r'] = '\\r',\n- ['t'] = '\\t',\n-};\n@@\n for (unsigned i = 0; i < 22; ++i) {\n unsigned lo = (unsigned)hex_chars[i];\n unsigned hv = (unsigned)hex_vals[i] << 4;\n for (unsigned j = 0; j < 22; ++j) {\n HEXPAIR[lo | ((unsigned)hex_chars[j] << 8)] = (uint16_t)(hv | hex_vals[j]);\n }\n }\n+\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'\"' << 8)] = '\"';\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'\\\\' << 8)] = '\\\\';\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'/' << 8)] = '/';\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'b' << 8)] = '\\b';\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'f' << 8)] = '\\f';\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'n' << 8)] = '\\n';\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'r' << 8)] = '\\r';\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'t' << 8)] = '\\t';\n+ ESCAPE2[U16_BS_U] = 0x100u;\n@@\n if (src == end) break;\n handle_special:\n if (UNLIKELY(*src != '\\\\')) return INVALID;\n if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 2)) return INVALID;\n \n- uint8_t e = src[1];\n- if (LIKELY(e == 'u')) goto handle_unicode;\n-\n- uint8_t mapped = ESCAPE_MAP[e];\n- if (LIKELY(mapped != 0)) {\n- *dst++ = mapped;\n+ unsigned esc = ESCAPE2[load16(src)];\n+ if (LIKELY(esc < 0x100u)) {\n+ *dst++ = (uint8_t)esc;\n src += 2;\n continue;\n }\n- return INVALID;\n+ if (UNLIKELY(esc != 0x100u)) return INVALID;\n \n handle_unicode:\n if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 6)) return INVALID;\n*** End Patch"}

✓ submission/solve.c: modified (3 hunks) 33+ static uint16_t ESCAPE2[1u << 16]; 36- static const uint8_t ESCAPE_MAP[256] = { 37- ['"'] = '"', 38- ['\\'] = '\\', 39- ['/'] = '/', 40- ['b'] = '\b', 41- ['f'] = '\f', 42- ['n'] = '\n', 43- ['r'] = '\r', 44- ['t'] = '\t', 45- }; 59+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'"' << 8)] = '"'; 60+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'\\' << 8)] = '\\'; 61+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'/' << 8)] = '/'; 62+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'b' << 8)] = '\b'; 63+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'f' << 8)] = '\f'; 64+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'n' << 8)] = '\n'; 65+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'r' << 8)] = '\r'; 66+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'t' << 8)] = '\t'; 67+ ESCAPE2[U16_BS_U] = 0x100u; 215- uint8_t e = src[1]; 216- if (LIKELY(e == 'u')) goto handle_unicode; 218- uint8_t mapped = ESCAPE_MAP[e]; 219- if (LIKELY(mapped != 0)) { 220- *dst++ = mapped; 215+ unsigned esc = ESCAPE2[load16(src)]; 216+ if (LIKELY(esc < 0x100u)) { 217+ *dst++ = (uint8_t)esc; 224- return INVALID; 221+ if (UNLIKELY(esc != 0x100u)) return INVALID; ... (diff truncated)

{"command": "./grade --seed 42", "intent": "A/B test 16-bit escape-pair dispatch on fixed seed", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

MISMATCH on input (2 bytes): 5c 30 expected: INVALID got (1 bytes): 00 grade: FAIL (verification) --- Command finished with exit code: 1 --- Exit code: 1

{"intent": "Fix escape-pair table encoding to distinguish invalid from simple escapes", "patch_text": "*** Begin Patch\n*** Update File: submission/solve.c\n@@\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'\"' << 8)] = '\"';\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'\\\\' << 8)] = '\\\\';\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'/' << 8)] = '/';\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'b' << 8)] = '\\b';\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'f' << 8)] = '\\f';\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'n' << 8)] = '\\n';\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'r' << 8)] = '\\r';\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'t' << 8)] = '\\t';\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'\"' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\"' + 1u;\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'\\\\' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\\\' + 1u;\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'/' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'/' + 1u;\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'b' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\b' + 1u;\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'f' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\f' + 1u;\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'n' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\n' + 1u;\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'r' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\r' + 1u;\n+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'t' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\t' + 1u;\n@@\n if (UNLIKELY(*src != '\\\\')) return INVALID;\n if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 2)) return INVALID;\n \n unsigned esc = ESCAPE2[load16(src)];\n- if (LIKELY(esc < 0x100u)) {\n- *dst++ = (uint8_t)esc;\n+ if (LIKELY(esc - 1u < 0xFFu)) {\n+ *dst++ = (uint8_t)(esc - 1u);\n src += 2;\n continue;\n }\n*** End Patch"}

✓ submission/solve.c: modified (2 hunks) 59- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'"' << 8)] = '"'; 60- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'\\' << 8)] = '\\'; 61- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'/' << 8)] = '/'; 62- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'b' << 8)] = '\b'; 63- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'f' << 8)] = '\f'; 64- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'n' << 8)] = '\n'; 65- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'r' << 8)] = '\r'; 66- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'t' << 8)] = '\t'; 59+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'"' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'"' + 1u; 60+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'\\' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\' + 1u; 61+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'/' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'/' + 1u; 62+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'b' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\b' + 1u; 63+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'f' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\f' + 1u; 64+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'n' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\n' + 1u; 65+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'r' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\r' + 1u; 66+ ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'t' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\t' + 1u; 216- if (LIKELY(esc < 0x100u)) { 217- *dst++ = (uint8_t)esc; 216+ if (LIKELY(esc - 1u < 0xFFu)) { 217+ *dst++ = (uint8_t)(esc - 1u);

{"command": "./grade --seed 42", "intent": "Retest fixed escape-pair dispatch implementation", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 0.6s 18,653,263 instructions (given: 56,969,013) SCORE +1.6107 (3.054x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

{"intent": "Revert slower escape-pair dispatch table", "patch_text": "*** Begin Patch\n*** Update File: submission/solve.c\n@@\n-static uint16_t ESCAPE2[1u << 16];\n static uint32_t BMP_UTF8[1u << 16];\n static uint32_t SURR_UTF8[1u << 20];\n+\n+static const uint8_t ESCAPE_MAP[256] = {\n+ ['\"'] = '\"',\n+ ['\\\\'] = '\\\\',\n+ ['/'] = '/',\n+ ['b'] = '\\b',\n+ ['f'] = '\\f',\n+ ['n'] = '\\n',\n+ ['r'] = '\\r',\n+ ['t'] = '\\t',\n+};\n@@\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'\"' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\"' + 1u;\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'\\\\' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\\\' + 1u;\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'/' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'/' + 1u;\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'b' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\b' + 1u;\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'f' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\f' + 1u;\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'n' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\n' + 1u;\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'r' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\r' + 1u;\n- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\\\' | ((uint16_t)'t' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\t' + 1u;\n- ESCAPE2[U16_BS_U] = 0x100u;\n-\n for (unsigned cu = 0; cu < 0x10000u; ++cu) {\n uint32_t pack;\n@@\n if (UNLIKELY(*src != '\\\\')) return INVALID;\n if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 2)) return INVALID;\n \n- unsigned esc = ESCAPE2[load16(src)];\n- if (LIKELY(esc - 1u < 0xFFu)) {\n- *dst++ = (uint8_t)(esc - 1u);\n+ uint8_t e = src[1];\n+ if (LIKELY(e == 'u')) goto handle_unicode;\n+\n+ uint8_t mapped = ESCAPE_MAP[e];\n+ if (LIKELY(mapped != 0)) {\n+ *dst++ = mapped;\n src += 2;\n continue;\n }\n- if (UNLIKELY(esc != 0x100u)) return INVALID;\n+ return INVALID;\n \n handle_unicode:\n if (UNLIKELY((size_t)(end - src) < 6)) return INVALID;\n*** End Patch"}

✓ submission/solve.c: modified (3 hunks) 33- static uint16_t ESCAPE2[1u << 16]; 36+ static const uint8_t ESCAPE_MAP[256] = { 37+ ['"'] = '"', 38+ ['\\'] = '\\', 39+ ['/'] = '/', 40+ ['b'] = '\b', 41+ ['f'] = '\f', 42+ ['n'] = '\n', 43+ ['r'] = '\r', 44+ ['t'] = '\t', 45+ }; 59- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'"' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'"' + 1u; 60- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'\\' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\\' + 1u; 61- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'/' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'/' + 1u; 62- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'b' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\b' + 1u; 63- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'f' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\f' + 1u; 64- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'n' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\n' + 1u; 65- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'r' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\r' + 1u; 66- ESCAPE2[(uint16_t)'\\' | ((uint16_t)'t' << 8)] = (uint16_t)'\t' + 1u; 67- ESCAPE2[U16_BS_U] = 0x100u; 215- unsigned esc = ESCAPE2[load16(src)]; 216- if (LIKELY(esc - 1u < 0xFFu)) { 217- *dst++ = (uint8_t)(esc - 1u); 215+ uint8_t e = src[1]; 216+ if (LIKELY(e == 'u')) goto handle_unicode; 218+ uint8_t mapped = ESCAPE_MAP[e]; 219+ if (LIKELY(mapped != 0)) { 220+ *dst++ = mapped; 221- if (UNLIKELY(esc != 0x100u)) return INVALID; 224+ return INVALID; ... (diff truncated)

{"command": "./grade --seed 42", "intent": "Confirm reverted implementation performance on fixed seed", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 0.6s 17,511,142 instructions (given: 56,969,013) SCORE +1.7019 (3.253x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

{"command": "./grade", "intent": "Final fresh grade for chosen implementation", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.5s 17,187,890 instructions (given: 51,022,199) SCORE +1.5697 (2.968x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

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{"command": "set -e\nfor seed in 1 42 123 999; do\n echo \"JCODE_CHECKPOINT {\\\"message\\\":\\\"grading seed $seed\\\"}\"\n ./grade --seed \"$seed\"\ndone", "intent": "Independently validate current submission across multiple seeds", "notify": false, "run_in_background": false, "timeout": 1200000, "wake": false}

JCODE_CHECKPOINT {"message":"grading seed 1"} build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.6s 17,872,471 instructions (given: 53,191,630) SCORE +1.5735 (2.976x) JCODE_CHECKPOINT {"message":"grading seed 42"} build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 0.6s 17,511,142 instructions (given: 56,969,013) SCORE +1.7019 (3.253x) JCODE_CHECKPOINT {"message":"grading seed 123"} build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.5s 17,506,609 instructions (given: 52,076,284) SCORE +1.5727 (2.975x) JCODE_CHECKPOINT {"message":"grading seed 999"} build 0.9s verify 0.9s PASS measure 1.6s 18,043,342 instructions (given: 53,553,974) SCORE +1.5695 (2.968x) --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

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recent_results= {'ts': '2026-07-19T02:41:31Z', 'seed': 1, 'cost': 17872471, 'given_cost': 53191630, 'score': 1.5735, 'full_gate': False} {'ts': '2026-07-19T02:41:33Z', 'seed': 42, 'cost': 17511142, 'given_cost': 56969013, 'score': 1.7019, 'full_gate': False} {'ts': '2026-07-19T02:41:37Z', 'seed': 123, 'cost': 17506609, 'given_cost': 52076284, 'score': 1.5727, 'full_gate': False} {'ts': '2026-07-19T02:41:40Z', 'seed': 999, 'cost': 18043342, 'given_cost': 53553974, 'score': 1.5695, 'full_gate': False} summary {'min_score': 1.5695, 'max_score': 1.7019, 'avg_score': 1.6044, 'min_cost': 17506609, 'max_cost': 18043342} --- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---

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