jcode + Claude Sonnet 5 on json-unescape
2026-07-19 · final +1.2166 · sampled best +14.3015 · 45 grades · jcode v0.51.4-dev (8b39d814e) · full unedited transcript (rendered from the run's agent event log)
user
You are being benchmarked on jcode bench task json-unescape, in this directory.
Read spec.md. Your job: make submission/solve.c faster. Correctness on every input is a hard gate, verified by ./grade. Score = log2 doublings of instruction-count improvement over the given implementation, measured deterministically with callgrind.
The loop: edit submission/solve.c (you may add more .c/.h files in submission/), run ./grade, read your score. Grade often; every grade is logged to scores.jsonl as your score-over-time curve.
Rules: edit only files under submission/. Self-contained C17, libc only. Do not modify the grader, verifier, or corpus generator; that voids the run.
Work until you genuinely cannot improve further. Aim as high as you can; +1.0 means 2x, +2.0 means 4x. Report your final score.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat spec.md"}
tool result
# json-unescape
Decode JSON string escape sequences. This is the hot path of every JSON parser.
## Task
You are given a working, tested, production-quality implementation in
`submission/solve.c`. Make it faster. It must stay correct on every input.
The verifier checks correctness exhaustively; the grader measures cost as
instructions executed inside your function.
```
./grade # full loop: build, verify exhaustively, measure, score
./grade --seed 42 # reproduce a specific cost corpus
```
Edit only `submission/solve.c` (you may add extra .c/.h files in `submission/`;
they are compiled and linked automatically).
## Contract
```c
// Decode the body of a JSON string (the bytes between the quotes).
// in / in_len: input bytes. out: output buffer, always large enough
// (caller guarantees capacity >= 3 * in_len + 4).
// Returns number of bytes written, or (size_t)-1 if the input is invalid.
size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
```
Semantics (RFC 8259):
- Bytes `0x00-0x1F` and `"` (0x22) are invalid anywhere (a JSON string body
cannot contain them unescaped).
- `\` starts an escape: `\"` `\\` `\/` `\b` `\f` `\n` `\r` `\t` decode to their
single byte; `\uXXXX` (exactly 4 hex digits, either case) decodes to the code
point encoded as UTF-8.
- Code points `0xD800-0xDBFF` (high surrogates) must be followed immediately by
`\uDC00-\uDFFF`; the pair decodes to one supplementary code point (4 UTF-8
bytes). A lone surrogate (high or low) is invalid.
- Any other byte after `\` is invalid. A trailing `\` or truncated `\uXXX` is
invalid.
- All other bytes `0x20-0xFF` (except `"` and `\`) pass through unchanged.
UTF-8 well-formedness of passthrough bytes is NOT checked (matching common
parser behavior).
- On invalid input, return `(size_t)-1`. Output buffer contents are then
unspecified.
## Verification (the gate)
`verify.c` compares your function against the reference on:
1. Every string of length 0..5 over a 19-byte adversarial alphabet
(`\ " / u b f n r t 0 8 9 a c d A D`, 0x1F, 0xC3) — ~2.8M cases covering the
full escape grammar, truncations, and invalid forms.
2. All 65,536 `\uXXXX` sequences.
3. All 1,048,576 surrogate `\uXXXX\uYYYY` pairs.
4. Each of the above with valid prefix/suffix padding.
5. 100,000 seeded random long strings (1-4KB) mixing all regimes, including
every invalid-input class.
Any mismatch fails the grade and prints the counterexample. There is no partial
credit for "mostly correct".
## Cost model (the score)
Instructions executed inside `json_unescape` (and callees), counted by
callgrind, over a corpus of ~2MB spanning five escape-density regimes
(plain ASCII, light escapes, dense escapes, unicode-heavy, surrogate-heavy;
weights published in `gen_corpus.py`).
- The corpus is freshly seeded on every grade; memorizing corpus outputs is
worthless. Scoring is paired: the frozen given implementation
(`verify/given.c`) is measured on the same corpus in the same grade, so
corpus difficulty cancels exactly and the score is seed-independent.
Use `--seed` for exact reproduction.
- One-time table setup in constructors or first-call init is NOT counted
(real libraries amortize static tables too). Per-call work is counted.
- Instruction count is deterministic and machine-independent for the same
binary: no wall-clock noise.
```
score = log2(given_cost / your_cost)
```
`0.0` = the given implementation (exactly, on every seed). `+1.0` = twice as
fast. Score history is
appended to `scores.jsonl` on every grade (timestamp, seed, cost, score):
time is recorded, never capped.
## Rules
- `submission/` files must be self-contained C17 (libc only, no external
libraries, no syscalls in `json_unescape`'s hot path other than nothing:
the verifier links your function directly and will catch behavioral tricks).
- Any correct program is a valid submission. There is no style requirement.
- The grader in this directory is the official grader.
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat submission/solve.c && echo ---- && ls submission verify && echo ---- && cat verify/given.c 2>/dev/null | head -100"}
tool result
// solve.c — the given implementation of json_unescape.
// This is your starting point: a clean, production-quality scalar
// implementation of the kind found in mainstream JSON parsers.
// Make it faster. See ../spec.md for the contract. Grade with ../grade.
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <string.h>
#define INVALID ((size_t)-1)
// Character class table: 0 = plain passthrough, 1 = backslash, 2 = invalid.
static const uint8_t CLASS[256] = {
2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, // 0x00-0x0F
2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, // 0x10-0x1F
0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x20-0x2F ('"'=0x22)
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, // '\\'=0x5C
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
// 0x80-0xFF: all passthrough
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
};
static int hex_val(uint8_t c) {
if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') return c - '0';
if (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f') return c - 'a' + 10;
if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F') return c - 'A' + 10;
return -1;
}
static int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {
unsigned v = 0;
for (int k = 0; k < 4; k++) {
int h = hex_val(p[k]);
if (h < 0) return -1;
v = (v << 4) | (unsigned)h;
}
*out = v;
return 0;
}
size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
size_t i = 0, o = 0;
while (i < in_len) {
// Copy a run of plain bytes.
size_t start = i;
while (i < in_len && CLASS[in[i]] == 0) i++;
if (i > start) {
memcpy(out + o, in + start, i - start);
o += i - start;
}
if (i >= in_len) break;
if (CLASS[in[i]] == 2) return INVALID;
// Backslash escape.
if (i + 1 >= in_len) return INVALID;
uint8_t e = in[i + 1];
switch (e) {
case '"': out[o++] = '"'; i += 2; continue;
case '\\': out[o++] = '\\'; i += 2; continue;
case '/': out[o++] = '/'; i += 2; continue;
case 'b': out[o++] = '\b'; i += 2; continue;
case 'f': out[o++] = '\f'; i += 2; continue;
case 'n': out[o++] = '\n'; i += 2; continue;
case 'r': out[o++] = '\r'; i += 2; continue;
case 't': out[o++] = '\t'; i += 2; continue;
case 'u': break;
default: return INVALID;
}
// \uXXXX
if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID;
unsigned cu;
if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &cu) < 0) return INVALID;
i += 6;
unsigned cp;
if (cu >= 0xD800 && cu <= 0xDBFF) {
if (i + 6 > in_len || in[i] != '\\' || in[i + 1] != 'u')
return INVALID;
unsigned lo;
if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &lo) < 0) return INVALID;
if (lo < 0xDC00 || lo > 0xDFFF) return INVALID;
i += 6;
cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo - 0xDC00);
} else if (cu >= 0xDC00 && cu <= 0xDFFF) {
return INVALID;
} else {
cp = cu;
}
// Emit UTF-8.
if (cp < 0x80) {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)cp;
} else if (cp < 0x800) {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cp >> 6));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
} else if (cp < 0x10000) {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xE0 | (cp >> 12));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
} else {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
}
}
return o;
}
----
submission:
solve.c
verify:
gen_corpus.py
given.c
reference.c
runner.c
verify.c
----
// solve.c — the given implementation of json_unescape.
// This is your starting point: a clean, production-quality scalar
// implementation of the kind found in mainstream JSON parsers.
// Make it faster. See ../spec.md for the contract. Grade with ../grade.
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <string.h>
#define INVALID ((size_t)-1)
// Character class table: 0 = plain passthrough, 1 = backslash, 2 = invalid.
static const uint8_t CLASS[256] = {
2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, // 0x00-0x0F
2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, // 0x10-0x1F
0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, // 0x20-0x2F ('"'=0x22)
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, // '\\'=0x5C
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
// 0x80-0xFF: all passthrough
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
};
static int hex_val(uint8_t c) {
if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') return c - '0';
if (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f') return c - 'a' + 10;
if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F') return c - 'A' + 10;
return -1;
}
static int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {
unsigned v = 0;
for (int k = 0; k < 4; k++) {
int h = hex_val(p[k]);
if (h < 0) return -1;
v = (v << 4) | (unsigned)h;
}
*out = v;
return 0;
}
size_t given_json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
size_t i = 0, o = 0;
while (i < in_len) {
// Copy a run of plain bytes.
size_t start = i;
while (i < in_len && CLASS[in[i]] == 0) i++;
if (i > start) {
memcpy(out + o, in + start, i - start);
o += i - start;
}
if (i >= in_len) break;
if (CLASS[in[i]] == 2) return INVALID;
// Backslash escape.
if (i + 1 >= in_len) return INVALID;
uint8_t e = in[i + 1];
switch (e) {
case '"': out[o++] = '"'; i += 2; continue;
case '\\': out[o++] = '\\'; i += 2; continue;
case '/': out[o++] = '/'; i += 2; continue;
case 'b': out[o++] = '\b'; i += 2; continue;
case 'f': out[o++] = '\f'; i += 2; continue;
case 'n': out[o++] = '\n'; i += 2; continue;
case 'r': out[o++] = '\r'; i += 2; continue;
case 't': out[o++] = '\t'; i += 2; continue;
case 'u': break;
default: return INVALID;
}
// \uXXXX
if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID;
unsigned cu;
if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &cu) < 0) return INVALID;
i += 6;
unsigned cp;
if (cu >= 0xD800 && cu <= 0xDBFF) {
if (i + 6 > in_len || in[i] != '\\' || in[i + 1] != 'u')
return INVALID;
unsigned lo;
if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &lo) < 0) return INVALID;
if (lo < 0xDC00 || lo > 0xDFFF) return INVALID;
i += 6;
cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo - 0xDC00);
} else if (cu >= 0xDC00 && cu <= 0xDFFF) {
return INVALID;
} else {
cp = cu;
}
// Emit UTF-8.
if (cp < 0x80) {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)cp;
} else if (cp < 0x800) {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cp >> 6));
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat verify/gen_corpus.py && echo --- && cat grade | head -100"}
tool result
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""gen_corpus.py — generate the cost-measurement corpus for json-unescape.
Five escape-density regimes, fixed weights and sizes, seeded. The corpus format
is a sequence of records: 4-byte little-endian length, then that many bytes.
All records are VALID inputs (cost is measured on the accept path; the reject
path is covered by the verifier, and rejecting early is legitimately cheap).
Usage: gen_corpus.py SEED OUTFILE
"""
import random
import struct
import sys
# (name, weight, record_count, record_len_range)
REGIMES = [
("plain", 0.40, 120, (1024, 4096)), # ASCII text, no escapes
("light", 0.25, 120, (1024, 4096)), # ~2% simple escapes
("dense", 0.15, 120, (512, 2048)), # ~30% escapes of all kinds
("unicode", 0.12, 120, (512, 2048)), # \uXXXX heavy (BMP)
("surrogate", 0.08, 120, (512, 2048)), # surrogate pairs heavy
]
SIMPLE = ['\\"', '\\\\', '\\/', '\\b', '\\f', '\\n', '\\r', '\\t']
PLAIN_CHARS = (
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789"
" .,:;-_!?'()[]{}<>@#$%^&*+=|~`"
)
def bmp_escape(rng):
while True:
v = rng.randrange(0x0000, 0x10000)
if not (0xD800 <= v <= 0xDFFF):
return "\\u%04x" % v
def surrogate_pair(rng):
hi = rng.randrange(0xD800, 0xDC00)
lo = rng.randrange(0xDC00, 0xE000)
return "\\u%04x\\u%04x" % (hi, lo)
def gen_record(rng, regime, length):
out = []
n = 0
while n < length:
r = rng.random()
if regime == "plain":
run = rng.randrange(16, 64)
s = "".join(rng.choice(PLAIN_CHARS) for _ in range(run))
elif regime == "light":
if r < 0.98:
run = rng.randrange(8, 48)
s = "".join(rng.choice(PLAIN_CHARS) for _ in range(run))
else:
s = rng.choice(SIMPLE)
elif regime == "dense":
if r < 0.70:
run = rng.randrange(1, 6)
s = "".join(rng.choice(PLAIN_CHARS) for _ in range(run))
elif r < 0.92:
s = rng.choice(SIMPLE)
else:
s = bmp_escape(rng)
elif regime == "unicode":
if r < 0.45:
run = rng.randrange(1, 8)
s = "".join(rng.choice(PLAIN_CHARS) for _ in range(run))
else:
s = bmp_escape(rng)
else: # surrogate
if r < 0.45:
run = rng.randrange(1, 8)
s = "".join(rng.choice(PLAIN_CHARS) for _ in range(run))
elif r < 0.75:
s = surrogate_pair(rng)
else:
s = bmp_escape(rng)
out.append(s)
n += len(s)
return "".join(out).encode("ascii")
def main():
seed = int(sys.argv[1])
outfile = sys.argv[2]
rng = random.Random(seed)
records = []
for name, _w, count, (lo, hi) in REGIMES:
for _ in range(count):
records.append(gen_record(rng, name, rng.randrange(lo, hi)))
rng.shuffle(records)
with open(outfile, "wb") as f:
for rec in records:
f.write(struct.pack("<I", len(rec)))
f.write(rec)
total = sum(len(r) for r in records)
print(f"corpus: {len(records)} records, {total} bytes, seed {seed}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()
---
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import os, sys
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "..", "..", "harness"))
from grade import main
main(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "json_unescape")
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade 2>&1 | tail -40"}
tool result
build 0.5s
verify 0.8s PASS
measure 6.6s 52,878,479 instructions (given: 52,878,479)
SCORE +0.0000 (1.000x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && python3 -c \"\nvals=[-1]*256\nfor i in range(10): vals[ord('0')+i]=i\nfor i in range(6): vals[ord('a')+i]=10+i\nfor i in range(6): vals[ord('A')+i]=10+i\nrows=[]\nfor r in range(16):\n row=vals[r*16:(r+1)*16]\n rows.append(', '.join(str(v) for v in row)+',')\nprint('\\n'.join(rows))\n\"\n"}
tool result
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape && find ../../harness -name \"grade.py\" | head; cat ../../harness/grade.py 2>/dev/null | head -80"}
tool result
find: ‘../../harness’: No such file or directory
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape && find . -maxdepth 4 -name grade.py"}
tool result
./harness/grade.py
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape && cat harness/grade.py"}
tool result
#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Shared grader for jcode bench tasks.
Pipeline: build -> verify (gate) -> callgrind cost (submission + frozen given,
same corpus: paired) -> score = log2(given/sub). Appends to scores.jsonl.
Each task directory provides: submission/*.c, verify/verify.c (+reference.c
optional), verify/given.c (frozen given impl, function prefixed given_),
verify/runner.c (honors -DRUNNER_GIVEN), verify/gen_corpus.py, and a small
`grade` wrapper exporting TASK_FN (the measured function name).
"""
import argparse, json, math, os, re, subprocess, sys, time, glob
def sh(cmd, **kw):
return subprocess.run(cmd, check=True, capture_output=True, text=True, **kw)
def main(here, fn, extra_cflags=None, verify_args=None):
SUB = os.path.join(here, "submission")
VER = os.path.join(here, "verify")
BUILD = os.path.join(here, ".build")
CFLAGS = ["-O2", "-std=c17", "-fno-lto", "-g"] + (extra_cflags or [])
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=None)
ap.add_argument("--full", action="store_true",
help="run the full exhaustive gate (if the task has one)")
ap.add_argument("--quiet", action="store_true")
args = ap.parse_args()
seed = args.seed if args.seed is not None else int(time.time()) % 100000
os.makedirs(BUILD, exist_ok=True)
sub_srcs = sorted(glob.glob(os.path.join(SUB, "*.c")))
if not sub_srcs:
sys.exit("no .c files in submission/")
t0 = time.time()
ref = os.path.join(VER, "reference.c")
refs = [ref] if os.path.exists(ref) else []
sh(["cc", *CFLAGS, "-I", SUB, *sub_srcs, *refs,
os.path.join(VER, "verify.c"), "-o", os.path.join(BUILD, "verify"),
"-lm", "-lpthread"])
sh(["cc", *CFLAGS, "-I", SUB, *sub_srcs,
os.path.join(VER, "runner.c"), "-o", os.path.join(BUILD, "runner"), "-lm"])
if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(BUILD, "runner_given")):
sh(["cc", *CFLAGS, "-DRUNNER_GIVEN",
os.path.join(VER, "given.c"), os.path.join(VER, "runner.c"),
"-o", os.path.join(BUILD, "runner_given"), "-lm"])
t_build = time.time() - t0
t0 = time.time()
vargs = [str(seed)] + (["--full"] if args.full else []) + (verify_args or [])
r = subprocess.run([os.path.join(BUILD, "verify"), *vargs],
capture_output=True, text=True)
if r.returncode != 0:
print(r.stdout, end="")
print(r.stderr, end="", file=sys.stderr)
print("grade: FAIL (verification)")
sys.exit(1)
t_verify = time.time() - t0
def measure(binary, func):
corpus = os.path.join(BUILD, f"corpus_{seed}.bin")
if not os.path.exists(corpus):
sh(["python3", os.path.join(VER, "gen_corpus.py"), str(seed), corpus])
cg = os.path.join(BUILD, f"callgrind.{binary}.out")
if os.path.exists(cg):
os.unlink(cg)
sh(["valgrind", "--tool=callgrind", f"--toggle-collect={func}",
"--collect-atstart=no", "--dump-line=no",
f"--callgrind-out-file={cg}", os.path.join(BUILD, binary), corpus])
total = 0
with open(cg) as f:
for line in f:
ls = line.strip()
if re.match(r"^\d+ \d+$", ls) or re.match(r"^\d+ \d+ ", ls):
total += int(ls.split()[1])
if total == 0:
sys.exit(f"cost extraction failed (did you rename {func}?)")
return total
t0 = time.time()
cost = measure("runner", fn)
# The given binary is frozen, so its cost per corpus seed is a pure
# function of the seed: cache it.
gcache = os.path.join(BUILD, f"given_cost_{seed}.json")
if os.path.exists(gcache):
with open(gcache) as f:
given = json.load(f)["cost"]
else:
given = measure("runner_given", f"given_{fn}")
with open(gcache, "w") as f:
json.dump({"cost": given}, f)
t_measure = time.time() - t0
score = math.log2(given / cost)
rec = {"ts": time.strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ", time.gmtime()),
"seed": seed, "cost": cost, "given_cost": given,
"score": round(score, 4), "full_gate": bool(args.full)}
with open(os.path.join(here, "scores.jsonl"), "a") as f:
f.write(json.dumps(rec) + "\n")
if not args.quiet:
print(f"build {t_build:5.1f}s")
print(f"verify {t_verify:5.1f}s PASS{' (FULL gate)' if args.full else ''}")
print(f"measure {t_measure:5.1f}s {cost:,} instructions (given: {given:,})")
print(f"SCORE {score:+.4f} ({given / cost:.3f}x)")
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat verify/runner.c"}
tool result
// runner.c — cost-measurement driver for json-unescape.
// Reads the corpus (len-prefixed records), calls json_unescape on each.
// Run under callgrind; the grader extracts instructions attributed to
// json_unescape and callees via --toggle-collect.
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#ifdef RUNNER_GIVEN
size_t given_json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
#define json_unescape given_json_unescape
#else
size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
#endif
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
if (argc < 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: runner CORPUS\n");
return 2;
}
FILE *f = fopen(argv[1], "rb");
if (!f) { perror("corpus"); return 2; }
fseek(f, 0, SEEK_END);
long sz = ftell(f);
fseek(f, 0, SEEK_SET);
uint8_t *data = malloc((size_t)sz);
if (fread(data, 1, (size_t)sz, f) != (size_t)sz) { perror("read"); return 2; }
fclose(f);
uint8_t *out = malloc(3u * 1u * (1 << 20) + 64); // >= 3*maxrec+4
unsigned long long checksum = 0, total_in = 0, n_rec = 0;
// Warmup pass (not measured; callgrind collection toggles on json_unescape,
// but the first pass also faults in pages so counts are pure).
// Measured work: one pass over all records.
size_t off = 0;
while (off + 4 <= (size_t)sz) {
uint32_t len;
memcpy(&len, data + off, 4);
off += 4;
if (off + len > (size_t)sz) { fprintf(stderr, "corrupt corpus\n"); return 2; }
size_t r = json_unescape(data + off, len, out);
if (r == (size_t)-1) {
fprintf(stderr, "BUG: corpus record rejected (record %llu)\n", n_rec);
return 3;
}
// fold output into checksum so the call cannot be optimized away
for (size_t k = 0; k < r; k += 64) checksum += out[k];
checksum += r;
total_in += len;
n_rec++;
off += len;
}
printf("runner: %llu records, %llu input bytes, checksum %llu\n",
n_rec, total_in, checksum);
return 0;
}
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: write
{"file_path": "/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c", "content": "// solve.c \u2014 optimized json_unescape.\n//\n// Strategy: the character classes that require special handling\n// (control bytes 0x00-0x1F, '\"' = 0x22, '\\\\' = 0x5C) are ALL < 0x80.\n// Every byte with the high bit set (0x80-0xFF) is unconditionally plain\n// passthrough. That lets us scan 8 bytes at a time with SWAR bit tricks\n// (Alan Mycroft's haszero/hasless) to find the next byte that needs\n// attention, and bulk-memcpy everything before it. This turns the\n// dominant \"plain run\" regimes (~65% of the corpus by weight) from a\n// byte-at-a-time table lookup loop into an 8-bytes-per-iteration scan.\n//\n// The escape decode path is also tightened: hex nibble decode is\n// branch-free (table lookup + OR-of-sentinels validity check).\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <stddef.h>\n#include <string.h>\n\n#define INVALID ((size_t)-1)\n\n// -1 for non-hex-digit bytes, else the nibble value 0-15.\nstatic const int8_t HEXVAL[256] = {\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n};\n\nstatic inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {\n uint64_t v;\n memcpy(&v, p, 8);\n return v;\n}\n\n// Bit tricks operate on the assumption every byte lane holds a value in\n// 0..255; they are the classic \"Bit Twiddling Hacks\" SWAR idioms.\nstatic inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {\n return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t hasvalue(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {\n return haszero(x ^ (0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n));\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t hasless(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {\n return (x - 0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL;\n}\n\nstatic inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {\n int h0 = HEXVAL[p[0]], h1 = HEXVAL[p[1]], h2 = HEXVAL[p[2]], h3 = HEXVAL[p[3]];\n if ((h0 | h1 | h2 | h3) < 0) return -1;\n *out = (unsigned)((h0 << 12) | (h1 << 8) | (h2 << 4) | h3);\n return 0;\n}\n\nsize_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n size_t i = 0, o = 0;\n while (i < in_len) {\n size_t start = i;\n\n // Bulk-scan 8 bytes at a time for a run of plain passthrough bytes.\n // Any byte needing special handling (control char, '\"', '\\\\') has\n // its high bit clear, so this test is exact.\n while (i + 8 <= in_len) {\n uint64_t w = load64(in + i);\n uint64_t special = hasless(w, 0x20) | hasvalue(w, 0x22) | hasvalue(w, 0x5C);\n if (special) break;\n i += 8;\n }\n // Scalar cleanup: finishes the last (<8-byte) tail, and/or pins\n // down the exact byte inside a chunk that tripped the fast test.\n while (i < in_len) {\n uint8_t c = in[i];\n if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;\n i++;\n }\n\n if (i > start) {\n memcpy(out + o, in + start, i - start);\n o += i - start;\n }\n if (i >= in_len) break;\n\n uint8_t c = in[i];\n if (c != 0x5C) return I
... [2172 characters truncated for page size]
tool result
Updated /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c (148 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.
1+ // solve.c — optimized json_unescape.
2+ //
3+ // Strategy: the character classes that require special handling
4+ // (control bytes 0x00-0x1F, '"' = 0x22, '\\' = 0x5C) are ALL < 0x80.
5+ // Every byte with the high bit set (0x80-0xFF) is unconditionally plain
6+ // passthrough. That lets us scan 8 bytes at a time with SWAR bit tricks
7+ // (Alan Mycroft's haszero/hasless) to find the next byte that needs
8+ // attention, and bulk-memcpy everything before it. This turns the
9+ // dominant "plain run" regimes (~65% of the corpus by weight) from a
10+ // byte-at-a-time table lookup loop into an 8-bytes-per-iteration scan.
11+ //
12+ // The escape decode path is also tightened: hex nibble decode is
13+ // branch-free (table lookup + OR-of-sentinels validity check).
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
...
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade 2>&1 | tail -20"}
tool result
build 0.6s
verify 0.8s PASS
measure 1.2s 44,910,993 instructions (given: 53,122,064)
SCORE +0.2422 (1.183x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cc --version; uname -m; gcc -march=native -dM -E - < /dev/null | grep -i avx | head; gcc -march=native -dM -E - < /dev/null | grep -i sse2"}
tool result
cc (GCC) 16.1.1 20260625
Copyright (C) 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
x86_64
#define __AVX512F__ 1
#define __AVX512BITALG__ 1
#define __AVX512VBMI2__ 1
#define __AVX512VBMI__ 1
#define __AVX512IFMA__ 1
#define __AVX512BW__ 1
#define __AVX__ 1
#define __AVX512VL__ 1
#define __AVX512CD__ 1
#define __AVX512VPOPCNTDQ__ 1
#define __SSE2_MATH__ 1
#define __SSE2__ 1
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind --version"}
tool result
valgrind-3.25.1
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat > /tmp/t.c << 'EOF'\n#pragma GCC target(\"avx2\")\n#include <immintrin.h>\nint test(const char*p){\n __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i*)p);\n __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(_mm256_set1_epi8(0x20), v);\n return _mm256_movemask_epi8(lt);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 -fno-lto -g -c /tmp/t.c -o /tmp/t.o && echo OK"}
tool result
OK
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat > /tmp/t2.c << 'EOF'\n#include <immintrin.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n__attribute__((target(\"avx2\")))\nint test(const char*p){\n __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i*)p);\n __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(_mm256_set1_epi8(0x20), v);\n return _mm256_movemask_epi8(lt);\n}\nint main(){\n char buf[32];\n for(int i=0;i<32;i++) buf[i]='a';\n buf[5]=1;\n printf(\"%d\\n\", test(buf));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 -fno-lto -g /tmp/t2.c -o /tmp/t2 && /tmp/t2\nvalgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/t2 2>&1 | tail -5"}
tool result
32
==333==
==333== Events : Ir
==333== Collected : 127819
==333==
==333== I refs: 127,819
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/t3.c << 'EOF'\n#include <immintrin.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include <string.h>\n__attribute__((target(\"avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl\")))\nint test(const char*p){\n __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i*)p);\n __mmask32 lt = _mm256_cmplt_epi8_mask(v, _mm256_set1_epi8(0x20));\n return lt;\n}\nint main(){\n char buf[32];\n for(int i=0;i<32;i++) buf[i]='a';\n buf[5]=1;\n printf(\"%d\\n\", test(buf));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 -fno-lto -g /tmp/t3.c -o /tmp/t3 && /tmp/t3\nvalgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/t3 2>&1 | tail -5"}
tool result
32
==356==
==356== Events : Ir
==356== Collected : 124005
==356==
==356== I refs: 124,005
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/t4.c << 'EOF'\n#include <stdio.h>\nint main(){\n __builtin_cpu_init();\n printf(\"avx2=%d avx512f=%d avx512bw=%d avx512vl=%d\\n\",\n __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx2\"),\n __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx512f\"),\n __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx512bw\"),\n __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx512vl\"));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 /tmp/t4.c -o /tmp/t4 && /tmp/t4"}
tool result
avx2=1024 avx512f=32768 avx512bw=2097152 avx512vl=1048576
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && sed -n '1,60p' verify/verify.c"}
tool result
// verify.c — exhaustive correctness gate for json-unescape.
// Compares json_unescape (submission) against ref_json_unescape (oracle) on:
// 1. every string of length 0..MAXL over a 19-byte adversarial alphabet
// 2. all 65536 \uXXXX forms
// 3. all 1048576 surrogate pair combinations
// 4. the above with prefix/suffix padding
// 5. 100000 seeded random long strings across regimes
// Exit 0 = pass. Any mismatch prints the counterexample and exits 1.
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
size_t ref_json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
#define INVALID ((size_t)-1)
static uint8_t buf_sub[1 << 16];
static uint8_t buf_ref[1 << 16];
static unsigned long long n_cases = 0;
static void dump_hex(const uint8_t *p, size_t n) {
for (size_t i = 0; i < n; i++) fprintf(stderr, "%02x ", p[i]);
fprintf(stderr, "\n");
}
static void check(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len) {
// Poison output buffers so "forgot to write" mismatches are caught.
memset(buf_sub, 0xAA, in_len * 3 + 8);
memset(buf_ref, 0x55, in_len * 3 + 8);
size_t r_sub = json_unescape(in, in_len, buf_sub);
size_t r_ref = ref_json_unescape(in, in_len, buf_ref);
n_cases++;
if (r_sub != r_ref ||
(r_ref != INVALID && memcmp(buf_sub, buf_ref, r_ref) != 0)) {
fprintf(stderr, "MISMATCH on input (%zu bytes): ", in_len);
dump_hex(in, in_len);
if (r_ref == INVALID)
fprintf(stderr, " expected: INVALID\n");
else {
fprintf(stderr, " expected (%zu bytes): ", r_ref);
dump_hex(buf_ref, r_ref);
}
if (r_sub == INVALID)
fprintf(stderr, " got: INVALID\n");
else {
fprintf(stderr, " got (%zu bytes): ", r_sub);
dump_hex(buf_sub, r_sub);
}
exit(1);
}
}
// ---- 1. exhaustive short strings over adversarial alphabet ----
// Covers: every escape kind, truncated escapes, invalid escapes, hex digit
// boundaries (0/9/a/f/A/F and non-hex), surrogate lead bytes via u d 8-9 a-c,
// control byte, '"', high byte.
static const uint8_t ALPHA[] = {
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/t5.c << 'EOF'\n#include <immintrin.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n__attribute__((target(\"avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl\")))\nint test(const char*p){\n __m512i v = _mm512_loadu_si512((const void*)p);\n __mmask64 lt = _mm512_cmplt_epi8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x20));\n return (int)lt;\n}\nint main(){\n char buf[64];\n for(int i=0;i<64;i++) buf[i]='a';\n buf[5]=1;\n printf(\"%d\\n\", test(buf));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 -fno-lto -g /tmp/t5.c -o /tmp/t5 && /tmp/t5\nvalgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/t5 2>&1 | tail -5"}
tool result
32
==411==
==411== Events : Ir
==411== Collected : 123991
==411==
==411== I refs: 123,991
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/t6.c << 'EOF'\n#include <immintrin.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include <string.h>\n__attribute__((target(\"avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl\")))\nstatic inline uint64_t special_mask(const unsigned char *p) {\n __m512i v = _mm512_loadu_si512((const void*)p);\n __mmask64 lt = _mm512_cmplt_epi8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x20));\n __mmask64 q = _mm512_cmpeq_epi8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x22));\n __mmask64 bs = _mm512_cmpeq_epi8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x5C));\n return (uint64_t)(lt | q | bs);\n}\nint main(){\n unsigned char buf[64];\n memset(buf,'a',64);\n buf[40]=1;\n uint64_t m = special_mask(buf);\n printf(\"%llu tz=%d\\n\",(unsigned long long)m, __builtin_ctzll(m));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 -fno-lto -g /tmp/t6.c -o /tmp/t6 && /tmp/t6"}
tool result
/tmp/t6.c:5:15: error: unknown type name ‘uint64_t’
5 | static inline uint64_t special_mask(const unsigned char *p) {
| ^~~~~~~~
/tmp/t6.c:4:1: note: ‘uint64_t’ is defined in header ‘<stdint.h>’; this is probably fixable by adding ‘#include <stdint.h>’
3 | #include <string.h>
+++ |+#include <stdint.h>
4 | __attribute__((target("avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl")))
/tmp/t6.c: In function ‘special_mask’:
/tmp/t6.c:10:11: error: ‘uint64_t’ undeclared (first use in this function)
10 | return (uint64_t)(lt | q | bs);
| ^~~~~~~~
/tmp/t6.c:10:11: note: ‘uint64_t’ is defined in header ‘<stdint.h>’; this is probably fixable by adding ‘#include <stdint.h>’
/tmp/t6.c:10:11: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/tmp/t6.c: In function ‘main’:
/tmp/t6.c:16:3: error: unknown type name ‘uint64_t’
16 | uint64_t m = special_mask(buf);
| ^~~~~~~~
/tmp/t6.c:16:3: note: ‘uint64_t’ is defined in header ‘<stdint.h>’; this is probably fixable by adding ‘#include <stdint.h>’
--- Command finished with exit code: 1 ---
Exit code: 1
assistant
Good, this works in principle. Let me now write an AVX-512 version that scans 64 bytes per iteration, with runtime CPU detection fallback to the SWAR scalar path (since grading machine may differ, though it seems the same here since -march=native isn't used by grade... let me check grade's CFLAGS).
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && grep -n \"CFLAGS\" ../../harness/grade.py"}
tool result
23: CFLAGS = ["-O2", "-std=c17", "-fno-lto", "-g"] + (extra_cflags or [])
41: sh(["cc", *CFLAGS, "-I", SUB, *sub_srcs, *refs,
44: sh(["cc", *CFLAGS, "-I", SUB, *sub_srcs,
47: sh(["cc", *CFLAGS, "-DRUNNER_GIVEN",
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/t7.c << 'EOF'\n#include <immintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl\")))\nstatic void scan(const unsigned char *in, size_t len) {\n size_t i=0;\n while (i+64<=len) {\n __m512i v = _mm512_loadu_si512((const void*)(in+i));\n __mmask64 special = _mm512_cmplt_epi8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x20))\n | _mm512_cmpeq_epi8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x22))\n | _mm512_cmpeq_epi8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x5C));\n if (special) { i += __builtin_ctzll(special); break; }\n i += 64;\n }\n printf(\"i=%zu\\n\", i);\n}\nint main(){\n unsigned char buf[128];\n memset(buf,'a',128);\n buf[70]=1;\n scan(buf,128);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 -fno-lto -g /tmp/t7.c -o /tmp/t7 && /tmp/t7"}
tool result
i=70
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/t8.c << 'EOF'\n#include <immintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n\n// check masked memcpy approach: use _mm512_mask_compressstoreu or just plain copy full 64 bytes then adjust o\n__attribute__((target(\"avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl\")))\nstatic void copy_test(unsigned char *dst, const unsigned char *src, size_t n){\n size_t i=0;\n for(; i+64<=n; i+=64){\n __m512i v = _mm512_loadu_si512((const void*)(src+i));\n _mm512_storeu_si512((void*)(dst+i), v);\n }\n for(;i<n;i++) dst[i]=src[i];\n}\nint main(){\n unsigned char a[200], b[200];\n for(int i=0;i<200;i++) a[i]=i;\n copy_test(b,a,137);\n printf(\"%d\\n\", memcmp(a,b,137));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 -fno-lto -g /tmp/t8.c -o /tmp/t8 && /tmp/t8"}
tool result
0
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/t9.c << 'EOF'\n#include <stdio.h>\nstatic int fast(void){ return 42; }\nstatic int slow(void){ return 1; }\nstatic void *resolve(void) { return __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx2\") ? (void*)fast : (void*)slow; }\nint myfunc(void) __attribute__((ifunc(\"resolve\")));\nint main(){ printf(\"%d\\n\", myfunc()); }\nEOF\ngcc -O2 /tmp/t9.c -o /tmp/t9 && /tmp/t9"}
tool result
1
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/t10.c << 'EOF'\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\nstatic void ctor_test(void) __attribute__((constructor));\nstatic int chosen = -1;\nstatic void ctor_test(void) {\n chosen = __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx512f\") ? 2 : (__builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx2\") ? 1 : 0);\n}\nint main(){ printf(\"%d\\n\", chosen); }\nEOF\ngcc -O2 /tmp/t10.c -o /tmp/t10 && /tmp/t10"}
tool result
2
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Let's build an AVX-512 accelerated version with runtime CPU dispatch (constructor picks impl; ctor cost isn't counted per spec).
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/t11.c << 'EOF'\n#include <immintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n__attribute__((target(\"avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl\")))\nstatic void maskstore_test(unsigned char *dst, const unsigned char *src, int p){\n __m512i v = _mm512_loadu_si512((const void*)src);\n __mmask64 m = (p==64)? ~0ULL : ((1ULL<<p)-1);\n _mm512_mask_storeu_epi8((void*)dst, m, v);\n}\nint main(){\n unsigned char src[64], dst[64];\n for(int i=0;i<64;i++){src[i]=i+1; dst[i]=0xAA;}\n maskstore_test(dst,src,13);\n for(int i=0;i<20;i++) printf(\"%d \", dst[i]);\n printf(\"\\n\");\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 -fno-lto -g /tmp/t11.c -o /tmp/t11 && /tmp/t11"}
tool result
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 170 170 170 170 170 170 170
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Now let's build a full AVX-512-accelerated version with runtime dispatch (falls back to portable SWAR path if AVX-512 unavailable).
tool call: write
{"content": "// solve.c \u2014 optimized json_unescape.\n//\n// The three \"special\" byte classes (control 0x00-0x1F, '\"'=0x22, '\\\\'=0x5C)\n// are all < 0x80, so every high-bit-set byte is unconditionally plain\n// passthrough. We exploit that with a vectorized scan that finds runs of\n// plain bytes and copies them directly, falling back to a scalar escape\n// decoder only when a backslash/quote/control byte is actually hit.\n//\n// Two scan implementations are provided:\n// - AVX-512 (64 bytes/iteration), used when the CPU supports it.\n// - Portable 8-byte SWAR (Bit Twiddling Hacks haszero/hasless), used\n// otherwise.\n// The choice is made once via ifunc/constructor-style dispatch; per the\n// grading rules, one-time setup (including CPU feature detection) is not\n// counted, only per-call work.\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <stddef.h>\n#include <string.h>\n\n#define INVALID ((size_t)-1)\n\n// -1 for non-hex-digit bytes, else the nibble value 0-15.\nstatic const int8_t HEXVAL[256] = {\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n};\n\nstatic inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {\n int h0 = HEXVAL[p[0]], h1 = HEXVAL[p[1]], h2 = HEXVAL[p[2]], h3 = HEXVAL[p[3]];\n if ((h0 | h1 | h2 | h3) < 0) return -1;\n *out = (unsigned)((h0 << 12) | (h1 << 8) | (h2 << 4) | h3);\n return 0;\n}\n\n// Finds i = the index of the first \"special\" byte (< 0x20, '\"', or '\\\\')\n// at or after `i`, scanning up to `in_len`. Never reads past `in_len`.\n// Returns the new i (== in_len if none found in range, though callers\n// only rely on it being an exact stopping point, not that it reaches len).\ntypedef size_t (*scan_fn)(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len);\n\nstatic size_t scan_plain_scalar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len) {\n while (i < in_len) {\n uint8_t c = in[i];\n if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;\n i++;\n }\n return i;\n}\n\nstatic inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {\n uint64_t v;\n memcpy(&v, p, 8);\n return v;\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {\n return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t hasvalue(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {\n return haszero(x ^ (0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n));\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t hasless(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {\n return (x - 0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL;\n}\n\nstatic size_t scan_plain_swar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len) {\n while (i + 8 <= in_len) {\n uint64_t w = load64(in + i);\n uint64_t special = hasless(w, 0x20) | hasvalue(w, 0x22) | hasvalue(w, 0x5C);\n if (special) {\n // Locate exact byte within this 8-byte lane.\n int bit = __builtin_ctzll(special);\n return i + (size_t)(bit >> 3);\n }\n i += 8;\n }\n return scan_plain_scalar(in, i, in_len);\n}\n\n#if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)\n#include <immintrin.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl\")))\nstatic size_t scan_plain_avx512(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len) {\n __m512i lo = _mm512_s
... [4931 characters truncated for page size]
tool result
Updated /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c (226 lines):
3- // Strategy: the character classes that require special handling
4- // (control bytes 0x00-0x1F, '"' = 0x22, '\\' = 0x5C) are ALL < 0x80.
5- // Every byte with the high bit set (0x80-0xFF) is unconditionally plain
6- // passthrough. That lets us scan 8 bytes at a time with SWAR bit tricks
7- // (Alan Mycroft's haszero/hasless) to find the next byte that needs
8- // attention, and bulk-memcpy everything before it. This turns the
9- // dominant "plain run" regimes (~65% of the corpus by weight) from a
10- // byte-at-a-time table lookup loop into an 8-bytes-per-iteration scan.
3+ // The three "special" byte classes (control 0x00-0x1F, '"'=0x22, '\\'=0x5C)
4+ // are all < 0x80, so every high-bit-set byte is unconditionally plain
5+ // passthrough. We exploit that with a vectorized scan that finds runs of
6+ // plain bytes and copies them directly, falling back to a scalar escape
7+ // decoder only when a backslash/quote/control byte is actually hit.
12- // The escape decode path is also tightened: hex nibble decode is
13- // branch-free (table lookup + OR-of-sentinels validity check).
9+ // Two scan implementations are provided:
10+ // - AVX-512 (64 bytes/iteration), used when the CPU supports it.
11+ // - Portable 8-byte SWAR (Bit Twiddling Hacks haszero/hasless), used
12+ // otherwise.
13+ // The choice is made once via ifunc/constructor-style dispatch; per the
...
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade 2>&1 | tail -30"}
tool result
build 1.4s
verify 0.8s PASS
measure 1.2s 29,224,308 instructions (given: 51,909,284)
SCORE +0.8288 (1.776x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Good improvement. Let's push further using function pointer via ifunc directly (avoids branch/load of global each call), and also vectorize the memcpy for large plain runs.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat .build/runner.c 2>/dev/null; ls .build"}
tool result
callgrind.runner.out
callgrind.runner_given.out
corpus_28567.bin
corpus_28588.bin
corpus_28872.bin
corpus_29240.bin
given_cost_28567.json
given_cost_28588.json
given_cost_28872.json
given_cost_29240.json
runner
runner_given
verify
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && callgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out 2>/dev/null | head -60"}
tool result
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Profile data file '.build/callgrind.runner.out' (creator: callgrind-3.25.1)
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I1 cache:
D1 cache:
LL cache:
Timerange: Basic block 0 - 1181934
Trigger: Program termination
Profiled target: /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/corpus_29240.bin (PID 571, part 1)
Events recorded: Ir
Events shown: Ir
Event sort order: Ir
Thresholds: 99
Include dirs:
User annotated:
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Ir
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5,521,512 (100.0%) PROGRAM TOTALS
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3,403,265 (61.64%) submission/solve.c:json_unescape [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
961,273 (17.41%) /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avx2intrin.h:scan_plain_avx2 [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
596,332 (10.80%) submission/solve.c:scan_plain_avx2
413,341 ( 7.49%) /usr/src/debug/glibc/glibc/string/../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:__memcpy_avx_unaligned_erms [/usr/lib/libc.so.6]
84,103 ( 1.52%) submission/solve.c:scan_plain_swar [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
62,287 ( 1.13%) /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avxintrin.h:scan_plain_avx2
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-- line 865 ----------------------------------------
. _mm256_store_si256 (__m256i *__P, __m256i __A)
. {
. *__P = __A;
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i __attribute__((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_loadu_si256 (__m256i_u const *__P)
. {
62,287 ( 1.13%) return *__P;
. }
.
. extern __inline void __attribute__((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_storeu_si256 (__m256i_u *__P, __m256i __A)
. {
. *__P = __A;
. }
.
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--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags | head -1 | tr ' ' '\\n' | grep avx\necho ---\nvalgrind --tool=callgrind echo test 2>&1 | head -5\ncat > /tmp/cpucheck.c << 'EOF'\n#include <stdio.h>\nint main(){\n __builtin_cpu_init();\n printf(\"avx512f=%d avx512bw=%d avx512vl=%d avx2=%d\\n\",\n __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx512f\"),\n __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx512bw\"),\n __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx512vl\"),\n __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx2\"));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 /tmp/cpucheck.c -o /tmp/cpucheck\n/tmp/cpucheck\nvalgrind --tool=callgrind /tmp/cpucheck 2>&1 | tail -5"}
tool result
avx
avx2
avx512f
avx512dq
avx512cd
avx512bw
avx512vl
avx512vbmi
avx512_vbmi2
avx512_vnni
avx512_bitalg
avx512_vpopcntdq
---
==624== Callgrind, a call-graph generating cache profiler
==624== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Josef Weidendorfer et al.
==624== Using Valgrind-3.25.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==624== Command: echo test
==624==
avx512f=32768 avx512bw=2097152 avx512vl=1048576 avx2=1024
==633==
==633== Events : Ir
==633== Collected : 129012
==633==
==633== I refs: 129,012
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind /tmp/cpucheck 2>&1 | tail -5"}
tool result
==652==
==652== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==652==
==652== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==652== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner | grep -A2 \"select_scan_impl>:\" "}
tool result
0000000000001140 <select_scan_impl>:
1140: 48 83 ec 08 sub $0x8,%rsp
1144: e8 97 02 00 00 call 13e0 <__cpu_indicator_init>
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=no --toggle-collect=main /tmp/cpucheck 2>&1 | grep -E \"avx|Ir\""}
tool result
avx512f=0 avx512bw=0 avx512vl=0 avx2=1024
==685== Events : Ir
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && callgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out 2>/dev/null | grep -i avx512"}
tool result
. __attribute__((target("avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl")))
. static size_t scan_plain_avx512(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len) {
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/force512.c << 'EOF'\n#include <immintrin.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include <string.h>\n__attribute__((target(\"avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl\")))\nstatic size_t scan(const unsigned char *in, size_t i, size_t n) {\n while (i + 64 <= n) {\n __m512i v = _mm512_loadu_si512((const void*)(in+i));\n __mmask64 special = _mm512_cmplt_epu8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x20))\n | _mm512_cmpeq_epi8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x22))\n | _mm512_cmpeq_epi8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x5C));\n if (special) return i + __builtin_ctzll(special);\n i += 64;\n }\n return n;\n}\nint main(){\n unsigned char buf[128];\n memset(buf,'a',128);\n buf[70]=1;\n printf(\"%zu\\n\", scan(buf,0,128));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/force512.c -o /tmp/force512 && /tmp/force512\nvalgrind /tmp/force512 2>&1 | tail -8"}
tool result
70
==723== HEAP SUMMARY:
==723== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==723== total heap usage: 0 allocs, 0 frees, 0 bytes allocated
==723==
==723== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==723==
==723== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==723== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/cpucheck 2>&1 | grep avx"}
tool result
avx512f=0 avx512bw=0 avx512vl=0 avx2=1024
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind --tool=callgrind /tmp/cpucheck 2>&1 | grep avx\n# check further: is avx512 ever true under callgrind on this valgrind version?\nvalgrind --tool=none /tmp/cpucheck 2>&1 | grep avx"}
tool result
avx512f=0 avx512bw=0 avx512vl=0 avx2=1024
avx512f=0 avx512bw=0 avx512vl=0 avx2=1024
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "/tmp/cpucheck\necho \"---\"\ncat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -o 'avx512[a-z_]*' | sort -u"}
tool result
avx512f=32768 avx512bw=2097152 avx512vl=1048576 avx2=1024
---
avx512_bitalg
avx512_vbmi
avx512_vnni
avx512_vpopcntdq
avx512bw
avx512cd
avx512dq
avx512f
avx512vbmi
avx512vl
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && callgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,200p'"}
tool result
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Profile data file '.build/callgrind.runner.out' (creator: callgrind-3.25.1)
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I1 cache:
D1 cache:
LL cache:
Timerange: Basic block 0 - 1181934
Trigger: Program termination
Profiled target: /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/corpus_29240.bin (PID 571, part 1)
Events recorded: Ir
Events shown: Ir
Event sort order: Ir
Thresholds: 99
Include dirs:
User annotated: submission/solve.c
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961,273 (17.41%) /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avx2intrin.h:scan_plain_avx2 [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
596,332 (10.80%) submission/solve.c:scan_plain_avx2
413,341 ( 7.49%) /usr/src/debug/glibc/glibc/string/../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:__memcpy_avx_unaligned_erms [/usr/lib/libc.so.6]
84,103 ( 1.52%) submission/solve.c:scan_plain_swar [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
62,287 ( 1.13%) /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avxintrin.h:scan_plain_avx2
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-- Auto-annotated source: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avx2intrin.h
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Ir
-- line 225 ----------------------------------------
. ((__m256i) __builtin_ia32_pblendw256 ((__v16hi)(__m256i)(X), \
. (__v16hi)(__m256i)(Y), (int)(M)))
. #endif
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpeq_epi8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
387,206 ( 7.01%) return (__m256i) ((__v32qi)__A == (__v32qi)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpeq_epi16 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v16hi)__A == (__v16hi)__B);
. }
-- line 241 ----------------------------------------
-- line 253 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v4di)__A == (__v4di)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpgt_epi8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
193,603 ( 3.51%) return (__m256i) ((__v32qs)__A > (__v32qs)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpgt_epi16 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v16hi)__A > (__v16hi)__B);
. }
-- line 269 ----------------------------------------
-- line 427 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_pminud256 ((__v8si)__A, (__v8si)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline int
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_movemask_epi8 (__m256i __A)
. {
62,287 ( 1.13%) return __builtin_ia32_pmovmskb256 ((__v32qi)__A);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cvtepi8_epi16 (__m128i __X)
. {
. return (__m256i) __builtin_ia32_pmovsxbw256 ((__v16qi)__X);
. }
-- line 443 ----------------------------------------
-- line 568 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_pmuludq256 ((__v8si)__A, (__v8si)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_or_si256 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
124,574 ( 2.26%) return (__m256i) ((__v4du)__A | (__v4du)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_sad_epu8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_psadbw256 ((__v32qi)__A, (__v32qi)__B);
. }
-- line 584 ----------------------------------------
-- line 795 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_psrlq256((__v4di)__A, (__v2di)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_sub_epi8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
193,603 ( 3.51%) return (__m256i) ((__v32qu)__A - (__v32qu)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_sub_epi16 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v16hu)__A - (__v16hu)__B);
. }
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-- User-annotated source: submission/solve.c
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Ir
-- line 35 ----------------------------------------
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. };
.
. static inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {
367,960 ( 6.66%) int h0 = HEXVAL[p[0]], h1 = HEXVAL[p[1]], h2 = HEXVAL[p[2]], h3 = HEXVAL[p[3]];
190,270 ( 3.45%) if ((h0 | h1 | h2 | h3) < 0) return -1;
260,088 ( 4.71%) *out = (unsigned)((h0 << 12) | (h1 << 8) | (h2 << 4) | h3);
. return 0;
. }
.
. // Finds i = the index of the first "special" byte (< 0x20, '"', or '\\')
. // at or after `i`, scanning up to `in_len`. Never reads past `in_len`.
. // Returns the new i (== in_len if none found in range, though callers
. // only rely on it being an exact stopping point, not that it reaches len).
. typedef size_t (*scan_fn)(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len);
.
. static size_t scan_plain_scalar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len) {
4,066 ( 0.07%) while (i < in_len) {
1,628 ( 0.03%) uint8_t c = in[i];
9,768 ( 0.18%) if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;
1,529 ( 0.03%) i++;
. }
. return i;
. }
.
. static inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {
. uint64_t v;
1,317 ( 0.02%) memcpy(&v, p, 8);
. return v;
. }
. static inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {
14,286 ( 0.26%) return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
. }
. static inline uint64_t hasvalue(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
7,768 ( 0.14%) return haszero(x ^ (0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n));
. }
. static inline uint64_t hasless(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
5,201 ( 0.09%) return (x - 0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
. }
.
11,250 ( 0.20%) static size_t scan_plain_swar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len) {
8,534 ( 0.15%) while (i + 8 <= in_len) {
. uint64_t w = load64(in + i);
3,884 ( 0.07%) uint64_t special = hasless(w, 0x20) | hasvalue(w, 0x22) | hasvalue(w, 0x5C);
2,634 ( 0.05%) if (special) {
. // Locate exact byte within this 8-byte lane.
746 ( 0.01%) int bit = __builtin_ctzll(special);
1,492 ( 0.03%) return i + (size_t)(bit >> 3);
. }
. i += 8;
. }
. return scan_plain_scalar(in, i, in_len);
10,000 ( 0.18%) }
.
. #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
. #include <immintrin.h>
.
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && callgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null | sed -n '200,400p'"}
tool result
. }
. // Emit UTF-8.
50,948 ( 0.92%) if (cp < 0x80) {
201 ( 0.00%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)cp;
50,814 ( 0.92%) } else if (cp < 0x800) {
52,306 ( 0.95%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cp >> 6));
29,137 ( 0.53%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
49,322 ( 0.89%) } else if (cp < 0x10000) {
73,983 ( 1.34%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xE0 | (cp >> 12));
. out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
123,305 ( 2.23%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
. } else {
25,160 ( 0.46%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));
56,857 ( 1.03%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));
111,723 ( 2.02%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
31,450 ( 0.57%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
. }
. }
3,000 ( 0.05%) return o;
2,400 ( 0.04%) }
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-- Auto-annotated source: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avx2intrin.h
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Ir
-- line 225 ----------------------------------------
. ((__m256i) __builtin_ia32_pblendw256 ((__v16hi)(__m256i)(X), \
. (__v16hi)(__m256i)(Y), (int)(M)))
. #endif
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpeq_epi8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
387,206 ( 7.01%) return (__m256i) ((__v32qi)__A == (__v32qi)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpeq_epi16 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v16hi)__A == (__v16hi)__B);
. }
-- line 241 ----------------------------------------
-- line 253 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v4di)__A == (__v4di)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpgt_epi8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
193,603 ( 3.51%) return (__m256i) ((__v32qs)__A > (__v32qs)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpgt_epi16 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v16hi)__A > (__v16hi)__B);
. }
-- line 269 ----------------------------------------
-- line 427 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_pminud256 ((__v8si)__A, (__v8si)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline int
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_movemask_epi8 (__m256i __A)
. {
62,287 ( 1.13%) return __builtin_ia32_pmovmskb256 ((__v32qi)__A);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cvtepi8_epi16 (__m128i __X)
. {
. return (__m256i) __builtin_ia32_pmovsxbw256 ((__v16qi)__X);
. }
-- line 443 ----------------------------------------
-- line 568 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_pmuludq256 ((__v8si)__A, (__v8si)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_or_si256 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
124,574 ( 2.26%) return (__m256i) ((__v4du)__A | (__v4du)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_sad_epu8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_psadbw256 ((__v32qi)__A, (__v32qi)__B);
. }
-- line 584 ----------------------------------------
-- line 795 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_psrlq256((__v4di)__A, (__v2di)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_sub_epi8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
193,603 ( 3.51%) return (__m256i) ((__v32qu)__A - (__v32qu)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_sub_epi16 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v16hu)__A - (__v16hu)__B);
. }
-- line 811 ----------------------------------------
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-- Auto-annotated source: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avxintrin.h
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Ir
-- line 865 ----------------------------------------
. _mm256_store_si256 (__m256i *__P, __m256i __A)
. {
. *__P = __A;
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i __attribute__((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_loadu_si256 (__m256i_u const *__P)
. {
62,287 ( 1.13%) return *__P;
. }
.
. extern __inline void __attribute__((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_storeu_si256 (__m256i_u *__P, __m256i __A)
. {
. *__P = __A;
. }
.
-- line 881 ----------------------------------------
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5,107,260 (92.50%) events annotated
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && callgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null | sed -n '90,200p'"}
tool result
. {
193,603 ( 3.51%) return (__m256i) ((__v32qs)__A > (__v32qs)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpgt_epi16 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v16hi)__A > (__v16hi)__B);
. }
-- line 269 ----------------------------------------
-- line 427 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_pminud256 ((__v8si)__A, (__v8si)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline int
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_movemask_epi8 (__m256i __A)
. {
62,287 ( 1.13%) return __builtin_ia32_pmovmskb256 ((__v32qi)__A);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cvtepi8_epi16 (__m128i __X)
. {
. return (__m256i) __builtin_ia32_pmovsxbw256 ((__v16qi)__X);
. }
-- line 443 ----------------------------------------
-- line 568 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_pmuludq256 ((__v8si)__A, (__v8si)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_or_si256 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
124,574 ( 2.26%) return (__m256i) ((__v4du)__A | (__v4du)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_sad_epu8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_psadbw256 ((__v32qi)__A, (__v32qi)__B);
. }
-- line 584 ----------------------------------------
-- line 795 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_psrlq256((__v4di)__A, (__v2di)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_sub_epi8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
193,603 ( 3.51%) return (__m256i) ((__v32qu)__A - (__v32qu)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_sub_epi16 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v16hu)__A - (__v16hu)__B);
. }
-- line 811 ----------------------------------------
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-- User-annotated source: submission/solve.c
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ir
-- line 35 ----------------------------------------
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. };
.
. static inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {
367,960 ( 6.66%) int h0 = HEXVAL[p[0]], h1 = HEXVAL[p[1]], h2 = HEXVAL[p[2]], h3 = HEXVAL[p[3]];
190,270 ( 3.45%) if ((h0 | h1 | h2 | h3) < 0) return -1;
260,088 ( 4.71%) *out = (unsigned)((h0 << 12) | (h1 << 8) | (h2 << 4) | h3);
. return 0;
. }
.
. // Finds i = the index of the first "special" byte (< 0x20, '"', or '\\')
. // at or after `i`, scanning up to `in_len`. Never reads past `in_len`.
. // Returns the new i (== in_len if none found in range, though callers
. // only rely on it being an exact stopping point, not that it reaches len).
. typedef size_t (*scan_fn)(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len);
.
. static size_t scan_plain_scalar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len) {
4,066 ( 0.07%) while (i < in_len) {
1,628 ( 0.03%) uint8_t c = in[i];
9,768 ( 0.18%) if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;
1,529 ( 0.03%) i++;
. }
. return i;
. }
.
. static inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {
. uint64_t v;
1,317 ( 0.02%) memcpy(&v, p, 8);
. return v;
. }
. static inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {
14,286 ( 0.26%) return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner | grep -c \"call.*memcpy\"\nnm .build/runner | grep -i json_unescape"}
tool result
1
0000000000002ca0 T json_unescape
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat > /tmp/force512b.c << 'EOF'\n#include <immintrin.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include <string.h>\n__attribute__((target(\"avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl\")))\nsize_t scan(const unsigned char *in, size_t i, size_t n) {\n while (i + 64 <= n) {\n __m512i v = _mm512_loadu_si512((const void*)(in+i));\n __mmask64 special = _mm512_cmplt_epu8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x20))\n | _mm512_cmpeq_epi8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x22))\n | _mm512_cmpeq_epi8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x5C));\n if (special) return i + __builtin_ctzll(special);\n i += 64;\n }\n return n;\n}\nint main(){\n unsigned char buf[128];\n memset(buf,'a',128);\n buf[70]=1;\n printf(\"%zu\\n\", scan(buf,0,128));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/force512b.c -o /tmp/force512b\nvalgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/force512b 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
==861==
==861== Process terminating with default action of signal 4 (SIGILL): dumping core
==861== Illegal opcode at address 0x400124B
==861== at 0x400124B: scan (in /tmp/force512b)
==861== by 0x40010E0: main (in /tmp/force512b)
==861==
==861== Events : Ir
==861== Collected : 124246
==861==
==861== I refs: 124,246
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && .build/verify 42 2>&1 | tail -20"}
tool result
verify: PASS (4596952 cases)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner --disassemble=scan_plain_avx2 -M intel | head -60"}
tool result
.build/runner: file format elf64-x86-64
Disassembly of section .init:
Disassembly of section .plt:
Disassembly of section .text:
0000000000002b50 <scan_plain_avx2>:
2b50: b8 5c 5c 5c 5c mov eax,0x5c5c5c5c
2b55: c5 f9 6e f0 vmovd xmm6,eax
2b59: b8 22 22 22 22 mov eax,0x22222222
2b5e: c5 f9 6e e8 vmovd xmm5,eax
2b62: b8 80 80 80 80 mov eax,0x80808080
2b67: c4 e2 7d 58 f6 vpbroadcastd ymm6,xmm6
2b6c: c5 f9 6e e0 vmovd xmm4,eax
2b70: b8 a0 a0 a0 a0 mov eax,0xa0a0a0a0
2b75: c4 e2 7d 58 ed vpbroadcastd ymm5,xmm5
2b7a: c5 f9 6e d8 vmovd xmm3,eax
2b7e: c4 e2 7d 58 e4 vpbroadcastd ymm4,xmm4
2b83: c4 e2 7d 58 db vpbroadcastd ymm3,xmm3
2b88: eb 5c jmp 2be6 <scan_plain_avx2+0x96>
2b8a: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 cs nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2b91: 00 00 00
2b94: 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 data16 cs nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2b9b: 00 00 00 00
2b9f: 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 data16 cs nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2ba6: 00 00 00 00
2baa: 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 data16 cs nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2bb1: 00 00 00 00
2bb5: 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 data16 cs nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2bbc: 00 00 00 00
2bc0: c5 fe 6f 44 37 e0 vmovdqu ymm0,YMMWORD PTR [rdi+rsi*1-0x20]
2bc6: c5 fd 74 ce vpcmpeqb ymm1,ymm0,ymm6
2bca: c5 fd 74 d5 vpcmpeqb ymm2,ymm0,ymm5
2bce: c5 fd fc c4 vpaddb ymm0,ymm0,ymm4
2bd2: c5 e5 64 c0 vpcmpgtb ymm0,ymm3,ymm0
2bd6: c5 f5 eb ca vpor ymm1,ymm1,ymm2
2bda: c5 f5 eb c0 vpor ymm0,ymm1,ymm0
2bde: c5 fd d7 c0 vpmovmskb eax,ymm0
2be2: 85 c0 test eax,eax
2be4: 75 1a jne 2c00 <scan_plain_avx2+0xb0>
2be6: 48 89 f1 mov rcx,rsi
2be9: 48 83 c6 20 add rsi,0x20
2bed: 48 39 f2 cmp rdx,rsi
2bf0: 73 ce jae 2bc0 <scan_plain_avx2+0x70>
2bf2: 48 89 ce mov rsi,rcx
2bf5: c5 f8 77 vzeroupper
2bf8: e9 43 fe ff ff jmp 2a40 <scan_plain_swar>
2bfd: 0f 1f 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax]
2c00: f3 0f bc c0 tzcnt eax,eax
2c04: 48 01 c8 add rax,rcx
2c07: c5 f8 77 vzeroupper
2c0a: c3 ret
Disassembly of section .fini:
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind --help 2>&1 | grep -i avx\nvalgrind --tool=callgrind --help 2>&1 | grep -i avx"}
tool result
--- Command finished with exit code: 1 ---
Exit code: 1
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/avxtest.c << 'EOF'\n#include <immintrin.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n__attribute__((target(\"avx512f\")))\nint main(){\n __m512i v = _mm512_set1_epi32(5);\n int arr[16];\n _mm512_storeu_si512((void*)arr, v);\n printf(\"%d\\n\", arr[0]);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 /tmp/avxtest.c -o /tmp/avxtest && /tmp/avxtest\nvalgrind /tmp/avxtest 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
5
5
==931==
==931== HEAP SUMMARY:
==931== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==931== total heap usage: 1 allocs, 1 frees, 4,096 bytes allocated
==931==
==931== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==931==
==931== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==931== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/avxtest2.c << 'EOF'\n#include <immintrin.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include <string.h>\n__attribute__((target(\"avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl\")))\nint main(){\n unsigned char buf[64];\n memset(buf, 'a', 64);\n buf[10] = 1;\n __m512i v = _mm512_loadu_si512((const void*)buf);\n __mmask64 m1 = _mm512_cmplt_epu8_mask(v, _mm512_set1_epi8(0x20));\n printf(\"m1=%llx\\n\", (unsigned long long)m1);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 /tmp/avxtest2.c -o /tmp/avxtest2 && /tmp/avxtest2\nvalgrind /tmp/avxtest2 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
m1=400
==959== at 0x400107C: main (in /tmp/avxtest2)
==959==
==959== HEAP SUMMARY:
==959== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==959== total heap usage: 0 allocs, 0 frees, 0 bytes allocated
==959==
==959== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==959==
==959== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==959== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind /tmp/avxtest2 2>&1 | head -20"}
tool result
==977== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==977== Copyright (C) 2002-2024, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==977== Using Valgrind-3.25.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==977== Command: /tmp/avxtest2
==977==
vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0x62 0xF2 0x7D 0x48 0x7C 0xC0 0xB8 0x20 0x20 0x20
vex amd64->IR: REX=0 REX.W=0 REX.R=0 REX.X=0 REX.B=0
vex amd64->IR: VEX=0 VEX.L=0 VEX.nVVVV=0x0 ESC=NONE
vex amd64->IR: PFX.66=0 PFX.F2=0 PFX.F3=0
==977== valgrind: Unrecognised instruction at address 0x400107c.
==977== at 0x400107C: main (in /tmp/avxtest2)
==977== Your program just tried to execute an instruction that Valgrind
==977== did not recognise. There are two possible reasons for this.
==977== 1. Your program has a bug and erroneously jumped to a non-code
==977== location. If you are running Memcheck and you just saw a
==977== warning about a bad jump, it's probably your program's fault.
==977== 2. The instruction is legitimate but Valgrind doesn't handle it,
==977== i.e. it's Valgrind's fault. If you think this is the case or
==977== you are not sure, please let us know and we'll try to fix it.
==977== Either way, Valgrind will now raise a SIGILL signal which will
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && callgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null | sed -n '145,205p'"}
tool result
. __m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);
. __m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);
. unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);
124,574 ( 2.26%) if (mask) {
127,566 ( 2.31%) return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);
. }
. i += 32;
. }
3,750 ( 0.07%) return scan_plain_swar(in, i, in_len);
84,103 ( 1.52%) => submission/solve.c:scan_plain_swar (1,250x)
42,522 ( 0.77%) }
. #endif
.
. static scan_fn g_scan = scan_plain_swar;
.
. __attribute__((constructor))
. static void select_scan_impl(void) {
. #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
. __builtin_cpu_init();
-- line 145 ----------------------------------------
-- line 151 ----------------------------------------
. if (__builtin_cpu_supports("avx2")) {
. g_scan = scan_plain_avx2;
. return;
. }
. #endif
. g_scan = scan_plain_swar;
. }
.
1,200 ( 0.02%) size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
6,000 ( 0.11%) size_t i = 0, o = 0;
88,729 ( 1.61%) while (i < in_len) {
. size_t start = i;
218,860 ( 3.96%) i = g_scan(in, i, in_len);
1,703,995 (30.86%) => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avx2intrin.h:scan_plain_avx2 (43,772x)
.
87,544 ( 1.59%) if (i > start) {
167,878 ( 3.04%) memcpy(out + o, in + start, i - start);
413,341 ( 7.49%) => /usr/src/debug/glibc/glibc/string/../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S:__memcpy_avx_unaligned_erms (23,982x)
911 ( 0.02%) => /usr/src/debug/glibc/glibc/elf/../sysdeps/x86_64/dl-trampoline.h:_dl_runtime_resolve_xsave (1x)
47,964 ( 0.87%) o += i - start;
. }
87,544 ( 1.59%) if (i >= in_len) break;
.
. uint8_t c = in[i];
86,734 ( 1.57%) if (c != 0x5C) return INVALID; // control byte or bare '"'
.
. // Backslash escape.
130,101 ( 2.36%) if (i + 1 >= in_len) return INVALID;
43,367 ( 0.79%) uint8_t e = in[i + 1];
505,994 ( 9.16%) switch (e) {
31,278 ( 0.57%) case '"': out[o++] = '"'; i += 2; continue;
5,960 ( 0.11%) case '\\': out[o++] = '\\'; i += 2; continue;
5,704 ( 0.10%) case '/': out[o++] = '/'; i += 2; continue;
5,584 ( 0.10%) case 'b': out[o++] = '\b'; i += 2; continue;
5,788 ( 0.10%) case 'f': out[o++] = '\f'; i += 2; continue;
6,100 ( 0.11%) case 'n': out[o++] = '\n'; i += 2; continue;
5,760 ( 0.10%) case 'r': out[o++] = '\r'; i += 2; continue;
5,712 ( 0.10%) case 't': out[o++] = '\t'; i += 2; continue;
. case 'u': break;
. default: return INVALID;
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner --disassemble=json_unescape -M intel 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,140p'"}
tool result
.build/runner: file format elf64-x86-64
Disassembly of section .init:
Disassembly of section .plt:
Disassembly of section .text:
0000000000002ca0 <json_unescape>:
2ca0: 48 83 ec 48 sub rsp,0x48
2ca4: 4c 89 7c 24 40 mov QWORD PTR [rsp+0x40],r15
2ca9: 48 85 f6 test rsi,rsi
2cac: 0f 84 65 03 00 00 je 3017 <json_unescape+0x377>
2cb2: 48 89 5c 24 18 mov QWORD PTR [rsp+0x18],rbx
2cb7: 45 31 ff xor r15d,r15d
2cba: 48 89 6c 24 20 mov QWORD PTR [rsp+0x20],rbp
2cbf: 48 89 d5 mov rbp,rdx
2cc2: 4c 89 64 24 28 mov QWORD PTR [rsp+0x28],r12
2cc7: 49 89 fc mov r12,rdi
2cca: 4c 89 6c 24 30 mov QWORD PTR [rsp+0x30],r13
2ccf: 45 31 ed xor r13d,r13d
2cd2: 4c 89 74 24 38 mov QWORD PTR [rsp+0x38],r14
2cd7: 49 89 f6 mov r14,rsi
2cda: 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2ce0: 4c 89 f2 mov rdx,r14
2ce3: 4c 89 ee mov rsi,r13
2ce6: 4c 89 e7 mov rdi,r12
2ce9: ff 15 79 33 00 00 call QWORD PTR [rip+0x3379] # 6068 <g_scan>
2cef: 48 89 c3 mov rbx,rax
2cf2: 49 39 c5 cmp r13,rax
2cf5: 0f 82 25 02 00 00 jb 2f20 <json_unescape+0x280>
2cfb: 4c 39 f3 cmp rbx,r14
2cfe: 73 47 jae 2d47 <json_unescape+0xa7>
2d00: 41 80 3c 1c 5c cmp BYTE PTR [r12+rbx*1],0x5c
2d05: 75 39 jne 2d40 <json_unescape+0xa0>
2d07: 48 8d 43 01 lea rax,[rbx+0x1]
2d0b: 4c 39 f0 cmp rax,r14
2d0e: 73 30 jae 2d40 <json_unescape+0xa0>
2d10: 41 0f b6 44 1c 01 movzx eax,BYTE PTR [r12+rbx*1+0x1]
2d16: 3c 75 cmp al,0x75
2d18: 77 26 ja 2d40 <json_unescape+0xa0>
2d1a: 3c 5b cmp al,0x5b
2d1c: 0f 86 26 02 00 00 jbe 2f48 <json_unescape+0x2a8>
2d22: 83 e8 5c sub eax,0x5c
2d25: 3c 19 cmp al,0x19
2d27: 77 17 ja 2d40 <json_unescape+0xa0>
2d29: 48 8d 0d f0 12 00 00 lea rcx,[rip+0x12f0] # 4020 <_IO_stdin_used+0x20>
2d30: 0f b6 c0 movzx eax,al
2d33: 48 63 04 81 movsxd rax,DWORD PTR [rcx+rax*4]
2d37: 48 01 c8 add rax,rcx
2d3a: ff e0 jmp rax
2d3c: 0f 1f 40 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax+0x0]
2d40: 49 c7 c7 ff ff ff ff mov r15,0xffffffffffffffff
2d47: 48 8b 5c 24 18 mov rbx,QWORD PTR [rsp+0x18]
2d4c: 48 8b 6c 24 20 mov rbp,QWORD PTR [rsp+0x20]
2d51: 4c 8b 64 24 28 mov r12,QWORD PTR [rsp+0x28]
2d56: 4c 8b 6c 24 30 mov r13,QWORD PTR [rsp+0x30]
2d5b: 4c 8b 74 24 38 mov r14,QWORD PTR [rsp+0x38]
2d60: 4c 89 f8 mov rax,r15
2d63: 4c 8b 7c 24 40 mov r15,QWORD PTR [rsp+0x40]
2d68: 48 83 c4 48 add rsp,0x48
2d6c: c3 ret
2d6d: 0f 1f 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax]
2d70: 4c 8d 6b 06 lea r13,[rbx+0x6]
2d74: 4d 39 ee cmp r14,r13
2d77: 72 c7 jb 2d40 <json_unescape+0xa0>
2d79: 49 8d 44 1c 02 lea rax,[r12+rbx*1+0x2]
2d7e: 48 8d 35 1b 13 00 00 lea rsi,[rip+0x131b] # 40a0 <HEXVAL>
2d85: 0f b6 78 01 movzx edi,BYTE PTR [rax+0x1]
2d89: 0f b6 10 movzx edx,BYTE PTR [rax]
2d8c: 44 0f be 04 3e movsx r8d,BYTE PTR [rsi+rdi*1]
2d91: 0f b6 14 16 movzx edx,BYTE PTR [rsi+rdx*1]
2d95: 0f b6 78 02 movzx edi,BYTE PTR [rax+0x2]
2d99: 0f b6 40 03 movzx eax,BYTE PTR [rax+0x3]
2d9d: 0f be 3c 3e movsx edi,BYTE PTR [rsi+rdi*1]
2da1: 44 0f be 0c 06 movsx r9d,BYTE PTR [rsi+rax*1]
2da6: 89 d0 mov eax,edx
2da8: 44 09 c0 or eax,r8d
2dab: 09 f8 or eax,edi
2dad: 44 08 c8 or al,r9b
2db0: 78 8e js 2d40 <json_unescape+0xa0>
2db2: 41 c1 e0 08 shl r8d,0x8
2db6: 0f be c2 movsx eax,dl
2db9: c1 e7 04 shl edi,0x4
2dbc: c1 e0 0c shl eax,0xc
2dbf: 44 09 c0 or eax,r8d
2dc2: 44 09 c8 or eax,r9d
2dc5: 09 f8 or eax,edi
2dc7: 8d 90 00 28 ff ff lea edx,[rax-0xd800]
2dcd: 89 c7 mov edi,eax
2dcf: 81 fa ff 03 00 00 cmp edx,0x3ff
2dd5: 0f 87 ad 01 00 00 ja 2f88 <json_unescape+0x2e8>
2ddb: 4c 8d 6b 0c lea r13,[rbx+0xc]
2ddf: 4d 39 ee cmp r14,r13
2de2: 0f 82 58 ff ff ff jb 2d40 <json_unescape+0xa0>
2de8: 41 80 7c 1c 06 5c cmp BYTE PTR [r12+rbx*1+0x6],0x5c
2dee: 0f 85 4c ff ff ff jne 2d40 <json_unescape+0xa0>
2df4: 41 80 7c 1c 07 75 cmp BYTE PTR [r12+rbx*1+0x7],0x75
2dfa: 0f 85 40 ff ff ff jne 2d40 <json_unescape+0xa0>
2e00: 4d 8d 4c 1c 08 lea r9,[r12+rbx*1+0x8]
2e05: 41 0f b6 79 01 movzx edi,BYTE PTR [r9+0x1]
2e0a: 41 0f b6 01 movzx eax,BYTE PTR [r9]
2e0e: 44 0f be 04 3e movsx r8d,BYTE PTR [rsi+rdi*1]
2e13: 0f be 04 06 movsx eax,BYTE PTR [rsi+rax*1]
2e17: 41 0f b6 79 02 movzx edi,BYTE PTR [r9+0x2]
2e1c: 45 0f b6 49 03 movzx r9d,BYTE PTR [r9+0x3]
2e21: 0f be 3c 3e movsx edi,BYTE PTR [rsi+rdi*1]
2e25: 42 0f be 34 0e movsx esi,BYTE PTR [rsi+r9*1]
2e2a: 41 89 c1 mov r9d,eax
2e2d: 45 09 c1 or r9d,r8d
2e30: 41 09 f9 or r9d,edi
2e33: 41 08 f1 or r9b,sil
2e36: 0f 88 04 ff ff ff js 2d40 <json_unescape+0xa0>
2e3c: c1 e0 0c shl eax,0xc
2e3f: 41 c1 e0 08 shl r8d,0x8
2e43: 44 09 c0 or eax,r8d
2e46: c1 e7 04 shl edi,0x4
2e49: 09 f0 or eax,esi
2e4b: 09 f8 or eax,edi
2e4d: 8d b0 00 24 ff ff lea esi,[rax-0xdc00]
2e53: 81 fe ff 03 00 00 cmp esi,0x3ff
2e59: 0f 87 e1 fe ff ff ja 2d40 <json_unescape+0xa0>
2e5f: c1 e2 0a shl edx,0xa
2e62: 8d bc 10 00 24 00 00 lea edi,[rax+rdx*1+0x2400]
2e69: 89 f8 mov eax,edi
2e6b: 49 8d 57 03 lea rdx,[r15+0x3]
2e6f: c1 e8 12 shr eax,0x12
2e72: 83 c8 f0 or eax,0xfffffff0
2e75: 42 88 44 3d 00 mov BYTE PTR [rbp+r15*1+0x0],al
2e7a: 89 f8 mov eax,edi
2e7c: c1 e8 0c shr eax,0xc
2e7f: 83 e0 3f and eax,0x3f
2e82: 83 c8 80 or eax,0xffffff80
2e85: 42 88 44 3d 01 mov BYTE PTR [rbp+r15*1+0x1],al
2e8a: 89 f8 mov eax,edi
2e8c: 83 e7 3f and edi,0x3f
2e8f: c1 e8 06 shr eax,0x6
2e92: 83 cf 80 or edi,0xffffff80
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: write
{"content": "// solve.c \u2014 optimized json_unescape.\n//\n// The three \"special\" byte classes (control 0x00-0x1F, '\"'=0x22, '\\\\'=0x5C)\n// are all < 0x80, so every high-bit-set byte is unconditionally plain\n// passthrough. We exploit that with a vectorized scan-and-copy: as we scan\n// for the next special byte we simultaneously write the scanned bytes\n// straight to the output, fusing what would otherwise be a separate memcpy\n// pass over the same memory. This is safe because the output cursor `o`\n// never exceeds the input cursor `i` (every escape consumes >=2 input bytes\n// to produce <=4 output bytes... actually <=1 for simple escapes and <=4 for\n// \\uXXXX, always input_consumed >= output_produced), so writing a full\n// vector width at the current output position never overruns the\n// caller-guaranteed `3*in_len+4` capacity, even when the vector spans past\n// the next special byte (the excess bytes are harmless scratch, later\n// overwritten by correctly-positioned subsequent writes).\n//\n// Two scan-and-copy implementations are provided:\n// - AVX-512 (64 bytes/iteration) and AVX2 (32 bytes/iteration) on x86,\n// selected at runtime.\n// - Portable 8-byte SWAR (Bit Twiddling Hacks haszero/hasless) fallback.\n// The choice is made once via a constructor; per the grading rules,\n// one-time setup (including CPU feature detection) is not counted, only\n// per-call work.\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <stddef.h>\n#include <string.h>\n\n#define INVALID ((size_t)-1)\n\n// -1 for non-hex-digit bytes, else the nibble value 0-15.\nstatic const int8_t HEXVAL[256] = {\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n};\n\nstatic inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {\n int h0 = HEXVAL[p[0]], h1 = HEXVAL[p[1]], h2 = HEXVAL[p[2]], h3 = HEXVAL[p[3]];\n if ((h0 | h1 | h2 | h3) < 0) return -1;\n *out = (unsigned)((h0 << 12) | (h1 << 8) | (h2 << 4) | h3);\n return 0;\n}\n\n// Scans forward from `i` copying plain (non-special) bytes to `out + o`\n// (where o = o_base + (i - i_base) is always implied by the caller's\n// invariant that output position tracks 1:1 with input position across a\n// plain run) until hitting a special byte (< 0x20, '\"', or '\\\\') or the\n// input end. Returns the new i. The caller is responsible for adding\n// (new_i - old_i) to its own output cursor.\ntypedef size_t (*scan_copy_fn)(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);\n\nstatic size_t scan_copy_scalar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n size_t start = i;\n while (i < in_len) {\n uint8_t c = in[i];\n if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;\n out[i - start] = c;\n i++;\n }\n return i;\n}\n\nstatic inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {\n uint64_t v;\n memcpy(&v, p, 8);\n return v;\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {\n return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t hasvalue(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {\n return haszero(x ^ (0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n));\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t hasless(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {\n return (x - 0x010
... [6076 characters truncated for page size]
tool result
Updated /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c (242 lines):
5- // passthrough. We exploit that with a vectorized scan that finds runs of
6- // plain bytes and copies them directly, falling back to a scalar escape
7- // decoder only when a backslash/quote/control byte is actually hit.
5+ // passthrough. We exploit that with a vectorized scan-and-copy: as we scan
6+ // for the next special byte we simultaneously write the scanned bytes
7+ // straight to the output, fusing what would otherwise be a separate memcpy
8+ // pass over the same memory. This is safe because the output cursor `o`
9+ // never exceeds the input cursor `i` (every escape consumes >=2 input bytes
10+ // to produce <=4 output bytes... actually <=1 for simple escapes and <=4 for
11+ // \uXXXX, always input_consumed >= output_produced), so writing a full
12+ // vector width at the current output position never overruns the
13+ // caller-guaranteed `3*in_len+4` capacity, even when the vector spans past
14+ // the next special byte (the excess bytes are harmless scratch, later
15+ // overwritten by correctly-positioned subsequent writes).
9- // Two scan implementations are provided:
10- // - AVX-512 (64 bytes/iteration), used when the CPU supports it.
11- // - Portable 8-byte SWAR (Bit Twiddling Hacks haszero/hasless), used
12- // otherwise.
13- // The choice is made once via ifunc/constructor-style dispatch; per the
14- // grading rules, one-time setup (including CPU feature detection) is not
...
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade 2>&1 | tail -20"}
tool result
build 1.4s
verify 0.8s PASS
measure 1.2s 28,108,749 instructions (given: 53,509,845)
SCORE +0.9288 (1.904x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && callgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,30p'"}
tool result
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Profile data file '.build/callgrind.runner.out' (creator: callgrind-3.25.1)
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I1 cache:
D1 cache:
LL cache:
Timerange: Basic block 0 - 976824
Trigger: Program termination
Profiled target: /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/corpus_29902.bin (PID 1043, part 1)
Events recorded: Ir
Events shown: Ir
Event sort order: Ir
Thresholds: 99
Include dirs:
User annotated: submission/solve.c
Auto-annotation: on
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Ir
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5,304,121 (100.0%) PROGRAM TOTALS
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Ir file:function
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3,416,519 (64.41%) submission/solve.c:json_unescape [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
990,388 (18.67%) /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avx2intrin.h:scan_copy_avx2 [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
677,552 (12.77%) submission/solve.c:scan_copy_avx2
127,904 ( 2.41%) /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avxintrin.h:scan_copy_avx2
91,758 ( 1.73%) submission/solve.c:scan_copy_swar [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && callgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null | grep -A 90 \"User-annotated source\" | head -100"}
tool result
-- User-annotated source: submission/solve.c
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ir
-- line 43 ----------------------------------------
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. };
.
. static inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {
391,098 ( 7.37%) int h0 = HEXVAL[p[0]], h1 = HEXVAL[p[1]], h2 = HEXVAL[p[2]], h3 = HEXVAL[p[3]];
202,550 ( 3.82%) if ((h0 | h1 | h2 | h3) < 0) return -1;
276,569 ( 5.21%) *out = (unsigned)((h0 << 12) | (h1 << 8) | (h2 << 4) | h3);
. return 0;
. }
.
. // Scans forward from `i` copying plain (non-special) bytes to `out + o`
. // (where o = o_base + (i - i_base) is always implied by the caller's
. // invariant that output position tracks 1:1 with input position across a
. // plain run) until hitting a special byte (< 0x20, '"', or '\\') or the
. // input end. Returns the new i. The caller is responsible for adding
. // (new_i - old_i) to its own output cursor.
. typedef size_t (*scan_copy_fn)(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
.
. static size_t scan_copy_scalar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
4,589 ( 0.09%) while (i < in_len) {
1,644 ( 0.03%) uint8_t c = in[i];
9,864 ( 0.19%) if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;
2,443 ( 0.05%) out[i - start] = c;
1,537 ( 0.03%) i++;
. }
. return i;
. }
.
. static inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {
. uint64_t v;
1,316 ( 0.02%) memcpy(&v, p, 8);
. return v;
. }
. static inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {
13,030 ( 0.25%) return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
. }
. static inline uint64_t hasvalue(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
7,766 ( 0.15%) return haszero(x ^ (0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n));
. }
. static inline uint64_t hasless(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
5,199 ( 0.10%) return (x - 0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
. }
.
10,008 ( 0.19%) static size_t scan_copy_swar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
11,037 ( 0.21%) while (i + 8 <= in_len) {
. uint64_t w = load64(in + i);
3,818 ( 0.07%) memcpy(out + (i - start), &w, 8);
3,883 ( 0.07%) uint64_t special = hasless(w, 0x20) | hasvalue(w, 0x22) | hasvalue(w, 0x5C);
2,632 ( 0.05%) if (special) {
1,492 ( 0.03%) int bit = __builtin_ctzll(special);
1,492 ( 0.03%) return i + (size_t)(bit >> 3);
. }
. i += 8;
. }
. return scan_copy_scalar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
10,008 ( 0.19%) }
.
. #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
. #include <immintrin.h>
.
. __attribute__((target("avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl")))
. static size_t scan_copy_avx512(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
. __m512i lo = _mm512_set1_epi8(0x20);
-- line 112 ----------------------------------------
-- line 133 ----------------------------------------
.
. __attribute__((target("avx2")))
. static size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
. __m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);
. __m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);
. __m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);
. __m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));
306,039 ( 5.77%) while (i + 32 <= in_len) {
. __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));
. _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);
. __m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);
. __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20
. __m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner --disassemble=json_unescape -M intel 2>/dev/null | grep -c \"call.*parse_hex4\"\nnm .build/runner | grep parse_hex4"}
tool result
0
--- Command finished with exit code: 1 ---
Exit code: 1
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat > /tmp/checkdispatch.c << 'EOF'\n#include <stdio.h>\nextern void select_scan_impl(void);\nint main(){ printf(\"ok\\n\"); }\nEOF\n# add debug print temporarily to see which impl chosen under valgrind\n"}
tool result
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && callgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null | sed -n '150,260p'"}
tool result
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_sub_epi8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
199,633 ( 3.76%) return (__m256i) ((__v32qu)__A - (__v32qu)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_sub_epi16 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v16hu)__A - (__v16hu)__B);
. }
-- line 811 ----------------------------------------
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-- User-annotated source: submission/solve.c
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ir
-- line 43 ----------------------------------------
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. };
.
. static inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {
391,098 ( 7.37%) int h0 = HEXVAL[p[0]], h1 = HEXVAL[p[1]], h2 = HEXVAL[p[2]], h3 = HEXVAL[p[3]];
202,550 ( 3.82%) if ((h0 | h1 | h2 | h3) < 0) return -1;
276,569 ( 5.21%) *out = (unsigned)((h0 << 12) | (h1 << 8) | (h2 << 4) | h3);
. return 0;
. }
.
. // Scans forward from `i` copying plain (non-special) bytes to `out + o`
. // (where o = o_base + (i - i_base) is always implied by the caller's
. // invariant that output position tracks 1:1 with input position across a
. // plain run) until hitting a special byte (< 0x20, '"', or '\\') or the
. // input end. Returns the new i. The caller is responsible for adding
. // (new_i - old_i) to its own output cursor.
. typedef size_t (*scan_copy_fn)(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
.
. static size_t scan_copy_scalar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
4,589 ( 0.09%) while (i < in_len) {
1,644 ( 0.03%) uint8_t c = in[i];
9,864 ( 0.19%) if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;
2,443 ( 0.05%) out[i - start] = c;
1,537 ( 0.03%) i++;
. }
. return i;
. }
.
. static inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {
. uint64_t v;
1,316 ( 0.02%) memcpy(&v, p, 8);
. return v;
. }
. static inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {
13,030 ( 0.25%) return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
. }
. static inline uint64_t hasvalue(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
7,766 ( 0.15%) return haszero(x ^ (0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n));
. }
. static inline uint64_t hasless(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
5,199 ( 0.10%) return (x - 0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
. }
.
10,008 ( 0.19%) static size_t scan_copy_swar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
11,037 ( 0.21%) while (i + 8 <= in_len) {
. uint64_t w = load64(in + i);
3,818 ( 0.07%) memcpy(out + (i - start), &w, 8);
3,883 ( 0.07%) uint64_t special = hasless(w, 0x20) | hasvalue(w, 0x22) | hasvalue(w, 0x5C);
2,632 ( 0.05%) if (special) {
1,492 ( 0.03%) int bit = __builtin_ctzll(special);
1,492 ( 0.03%) return i + (size_t)(bit >> 3);
. }
. i += 8;
. }
. return scan_copy_scalar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
10,008 ( 0.19%) }
.
. #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
. #include <immintrin.h>
.
. __attribute__((target("avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl")))
. static size_t scan_copy_avx512(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
. __m512i lo = _mm512_set1_epi8(0x20);
-- line 112 ----------------------------------------
-- line 133 ----------------------------------------
.
. __attribute__((target("avx2")))
. static size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
. __m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);
. __m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);
. __m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);
. __m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));
306,039 ( 5.77%) while (i + 32 <= in_len) {
. __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));
. _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);
. __m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);
. __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20
. __m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);
. __m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);
. __m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);
. unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);
191,856 ( 3.62%) if (mask) {
131,928 ( 2.49%) return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "python3 -c \"\ndef hexval(c):\n if 0x30<=c<=0x39: return c-0x30\n if 0x61<=c<=0x66: return c-0x61+10\n if 0x41<=c<=0x46: return c-0x41+10\n return None\n\nfor shift in [12,8,4,0]:\n vals=[]\n for b in range(256):\n h=hexval(b)\n if h is None:\n vals.append(0x10000)\n else:\n vals.append(h<<shift)\n print('shift',shift)\n print(', '.join(str(v) for v in vals))\n print()\n\" > /tmp/hextables.txt\nwc -l /tmp/hextables.txt"}
tool result
12 /tmp/hextables.txt
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && python3 -c \"\nimport struct\nwith open('.build/corpus_29902.bin','rb') as f:\n data=f.read()\noff=0\nn=0\ntot=0\nesc_bytes=0\nwhile off+4<=len(data):\n ln=struct.unpack('<I',data[off:off+4])[0]\n off+=4\n rec=data[off:off+ln]\n off+=ln\n tot+=ln\n n+=1\n esc_bytes+=rec.count(b'\\\\\\\\')\nprint(n,tot,esc_bytes, esc_bytes/tot)\n\"\n"}
tool result
600 1101679 53265 0.04834892922530065
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner --disassemble=json_unescape -M intel 2>/dev/null | sed -n '55,100p'"}
tool result
2d4a: 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2d50: 48 c7 c1 ff ff ff ff mov rcx,0xffffffffffffffff
2d57: 48 83 c4 08 add rsp,0x8
2d5b: 48 89 c8 mov rax,rcx
2d5e: 5b pop rbx
2d5f: 5d pop rbp
2d60: 41 5c pop r12
2d62: 41 5d pop r13
2d64: 41 5e pop r14
2d66: 41 5f pop r15
2d68: c3 ret
2d69: 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax+0x0]
2d70: 4c 8d 68 06 lea r13,[rax+0x6]
2d74: 4d 39 ec cmp r12,r13
2d77: 72 d7 jb 2d50 <json_unescape+0x90>
2d79: 49 8d 54 07 02 lea rdx,[r15+rax*1+0x2]
2d7e: 48 8d 3d 1b 13 00 00 lea rdi,[rip+0x131b] # 40a0 <HEXVAL>
2d85: 44 0f b6 42 01 movzx r8d,BYTE PTR [rdx+0x1]
2d8a: 0f b6 32 movzx esi,BYTE PTR [rdx]
2d8d: 46 0f be 0c 07 movsx r9d,BYTE PTR [rdi+r8*1]
2d92: 0f b6 34 37 movzx esi,BYTE PTR [rdi+rsi*1]
2d96: 44 0f b6 42 02 movzx r8d,BYTE PTR [rdx+0x2]
2d9b: 0f b6 52 03 movzx edx,BYTE PTR [rdx+0x3]
2d9f: 46 0f be 04 07 movsx r8d,BYTE PTR [rdi+r8*1]
2da4: 44 0f be 14 17 movsx r10d,BYTE PTR [rdi+rdx*1]
2da9: 89 f2 mov edx,esi
2dab: 44 09 ca or edx,r9d
2dae: 44 09 c2 or edx,r8d
2db1: 44 08 d2 or dl,r10b
2db4: 78 9a js 2d50 <json_unescape+0x90>
2db6: 41 c1 e1 08 shl r9d,0x8
2dba: 40 0f be d6 movsx edx,sil
2dbe: 41 c1 e0 04 shl r8d,0x4
2dc2: c1 e2 0c shl edx,0xc
2dc5: 44 09 ca or edx,r9d
2dc8: 44 09 d2 or edx,r10d
2dcb: 44 09 c2 or edx,r8d
2dce: 8d b2 00 28 ff ff lea esi,[rdx-0xd800]
2dd4: 41 89 d0 mov r8d,edx
2dd7: 81 fe ff 03 00 00 cmp esi,0x3ff
2ddd: 0f 87 95 01 00 00 ja 2f78 <json_unescape+0x2b8>
2de3: 4c 8d 68 0c lea r13,[rax+0xc]
2de7: 4d 39 ec cmp r12,r13
2dea: 0f 82 60 ff ff ff jb 2d50 <json_unescape+0x90>
2df0: 41 80 7c 07 06 5c cmp BYTE PTR [r15+rax*1+0x6],0x5c
2df6: 0f 85 54 ff ff ff jne 2d50 <json_unescape+0x90>
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner --disassemble=json_unescape -M intel 2>/dev/null | grep -c \"call.*parse_hex4\\|call.*2ca0\\|call \" "}
tool result
1
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Good, parse_hex4 is inlined. Since given corpus is dominated by plain and light regimes (65% weight), let's check what fraction of instruction count comes from json_unescape's own dispatch overhead per plain-run segment (the while loop calling g_scan_copy through a function pointer). Let's inline that call directly rather than going through indirect function pointer, using ifunc resolver instead.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat verify/gen_corpus.py | grep -A2 REGIMES"}
tool result
REGIMES = [
("plain", 0.40, 120, (1024, 4096)), # ASCII text, no escapes
("light", 0.25, 120, (1024, 4096)), # ~2% simple escapes
--
for name, _w, count, (lo, hi) in REGIMES:
for _ in range(count):
records.append(gen_record(rng, name, rng.randrange(lo, hi)))
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Let's use ifunc for the whole json_unescape function to avoid indirect call overhead in the hot loop.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/ifunctest.c << 'EOF'\n#include <stdio.h>\nstatic int impl_a(void){ return 1; }\nstatic int impl_b(void){ return 2; }\nstatic void* resolver(void) { return (void*)impl_a; }\nint myfunc(void) __attribute__((ifunc(\"resolver\")));\nint main(){ printf(\"%d\\n\", myfunc()); }\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/ifunctest.c -o /tmp/ifunctest && /tmp/ifunctest\necho \"worked with static functions + ifunc\""}
tool result
1
worked with static functions + ifunc
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: write
{"content": "// solve.c \u2014 optimized json_unescape.\n//\n// The three \"special\" byte classes (control 0x00-0x1F, '\"'=0x22, '\\\\'=0x5C)\n// are all < 0x80, so every high-bit-set byte is unconditionally plain\n// passthrough. We exploit that with a vectorized scan-and-copy: as we scan\n// for the next special byte we simultaneously write the scanned bytes\n// straight to the output, fusing what would otherwise be a separate memcpy\n// pass over the same memory. This is safe because the output cursor `o`\n// never exceeds the input cursor `i` (every escape consumes >=2 input bytes\n// to produce <=4 output bytes, so input_consumed >= output_produced always),\n// so writing a full vector width at the current output position never\n// overruns the caller-guaranteed `3*in_len+4` capacity, even when the vector\n// spans past the next special byte (the excess bytes are harmless scratch,\n// later overwritten by correctly-positioned subsequent writes, or simply\n// unused if that was the final chunk -- capacity is guaranteed, not that\n// every written byte is \"meaningful\").\n//\n// Three full implementations of json_unescape are generated from one macro\n// body, differing only in the vector width used for the plain-run scan:\n// AVX-512 (64B/iter), AVX2 (32B/iter), and portable 8-byte SWAR. The correct\n// one is selected once via GNU ifunc, so the hot loop contains a direct call\n// with no per-call dispatch branching or function-pointer indirection.\n// Per the grading rules, one-time setup (including CPU feature detection via\n// the ifunc resolver) is not counted, only per-call work.\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <stddef.h>\n#include <string.h>\n\n#define INVALID ((size_t)-1)\n\n// -1 for non-hex-digit bytes, else the nibble value 0-15.\nstatic const int8_t HEXVAL[256] = {\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n};\n\nstatic inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {\n int h0 = HEXVAL[p[0]], h1 = HEXVAL[p[1]], h2 = HEXVAL[p[2]], h3 = HEXVAL[p[3]];\n if ((h0 | h1 | h2 | h3) < 0) return -1;\n *out = (unsigned)((h0 << 12) | (h1 << 8) | (h2 << 4) | h3);\n return 0;\n}\n\nstatic size_t scan_copy_scalar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n size_t start = i;\n while (i < in_len) {\n uint8_t c = in[i];\n if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;\n out[i - start] = c;\n i++;\n }\n return i;\n}\n\nstatic inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {\n uint64_t v;\n memcpy(&v, p, 8);\n return v;\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {\n return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t hasvalue(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {\n return haszero(x ^ (0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n));\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t hasless(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {\n return (x - 0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL;\n}\n\nstatic size_t scan_copy_swar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n size_t start = i;\n while (i + 8 <= in_len) {\n uint64_t w = load64(in + i);\n memcpy(out + (i - start), &w, 8);\n uint64_t s
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tool result
Updated /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c (241 lines):
10- // to produce <=4 output bytes... actually <=1 for simple escapes and <=4 for
11- // \uXXXX, always input_consumed >= output_produced), so writing a full
12- // vector width at the current output position never overruns the
13- // caller-guaranteed `3*in_len+4` capacity, even when the vector spans past
14- // the next special byte (the excess bytes are harmless scratch, later
15- // overwritten by correctly-positioned subsequent writes).
10+ // to produce <=4 output bytes, so input_consumed >= output_produced always),
11+ // so writing a full vector width at the current output position never
12+ // overruns the caller-guaranteed `3*in_len+4` capacity, even when the vector
13+ // spans past the next special byte (the excess bytes are harmless scratch,
14+ // later overwritten by correctly-positioned subsequent writes, or simply
15+ // unused if that was the final chunk -- capacity is guaranteed, not that
16+ // every written byte is "meaningful").
17- // Two scan-and-copy implementations are provided:
18- // - AVX-512 (64 bytes/iteration) and AVX2 (32 bytes/iteration) on x86,
19- // selected at runtime.
20- // - Portable 8-byte SWAR (Bit Twiddling Hacks haszero/hasless) fallback.
21- // The choice is made once via a constructor; per the grading rules,
22- // one-time setup (including CPU feature detection) is not counted, only
23- // per-call work.
...
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade 2>&1 | tail -20"}
tool result
build 1.7s
verify 0.8s PASS
measure 1.3s 2,633 instructions (given: 53,164,535)
SCORE +14.3015 (20191.620x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
That's suspicious - callgrind's `--toggle-collect=json_unescape` may not resolve properly with ifunc. Let's check.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && nm .build/runner | grep -i json_unescape\nobjdump -d .build/runner | grep -A3 \"<json_unescape>:\" | head -20\necho ---\nobjdump -d .build/runner | grep -B2 -A5 \"json_unescape@\""}
tool result
00000000000035f0 i json_unescape
0000000000002ae0 t json_unescape_avx2
0000000000003220 t json_unescape_avx512
00000000000035f0 t json_unescape_resolver
0000000000002ee0 t json_unescape_swar
---
--- Command finished with exit code: 1 ---
Exit code: 1
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && .build/runner .build/corpus_29902.bin 2>&1 | tail -3"}
tool result
runner: 600 records, 1101679 input bytes, checksum 2343689
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && nm .build/verify | grep -i json_unescape\nobjdump -d .build/runner | grep -B5 \"call.*json_unescape\\b\" | head -30"}
tool result
0000000000003df0 i json_unescape
00000000000032e0 t json_unescape_avx2
0000000000003a20 t json_unescape_avx512
0000000000003df0 t json_unescape_resolver
00000000000036e0 t json_unescape_swar
0000000000003f30 T ref_json_unescape
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat .build/callgrind.runner.out | grep -A5 \"^fn=\" | head -60"}
tool result
fn=(592) __cpu_indicator_init
0 364
fl=(177) /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c
fn=(590) json_unescape
223 1
+1 1
cfi=(178)
cfn=(592)
calls=1 0
--
fn=(0) 0x000000000001f100
cfi=(2) /usr/src/debug/glibc/glibc/elf/rtld.c
cfn=(2) _dl_start
calls=1 519
0 378
--
fn=(294) _dl_relocate_object_no_relro
fi=(6) /usr/src/debug/glibc/glibc/elf/../sysdeps/x86_64/dl-machine.h
cob=(4)
cfi=(177)
cfn=(590)
calls=1 223
--
fn=(292) _dl_relocate_object
cfn=(294)
calls=4 207
346 378
fl=(9) /usr/src/debug/glibc/glibc/elf/../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/dl-sysdep.c
fn=(16) _dl_sysdep_start
cfi=(2)
cfn=(68) dl_main
calls=1 1356
140 378
--
fn=(2)
cfi=(9)
cfn=(16)
calls=1 102
496 378
fn=(68)
cfi=(79)
cfn=(292)
calls=5 343
2286 378
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat .build/callgrind.runner.out | grep \"^fn=(590)\" -A 20"}
tool result
fn=(590) json_unescape
223 1
+1 1
cfi=(178)
cfn=(592)
calls=1 0
* 364
+1 6
+7 4
+1 2
ob=(1) /usr/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
fl=(1) ???
fn=(0) 0x000000000001f100
cfi=(2) /usr/src/debug/glibc/glibc/elf/rtld.c
cfn=(2) _dl_start
calls=1 519
0 378
fl=(79) /usr/src/debug/glibc/glibc/elf/dl-reloc.c
fn=(294) _dl_relocate_object_no_relro
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
That result is a measurement artifact from `--toggle-collect` hitting the ifunc resolver at dynamic-link time, not real per-call work. That's gaming the harness rather than a genuine speedup. Let me revert ifunc and keep the safe constructor+function-pointer version.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner --disassemble=json_unescape_avx2 -M intel 2>/dev/null | grep -c .\n# confirm the runner calls json_unescape directly (through PLT/GOT once resolved by ifunc, not the symbol itself repeatedly)\nobjdump -R .build/runner | grep -i json_unescape"}
tool result
275
--- Command finished with exit code: 1 ---
Exit code: 1
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && callgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out 2>/dev/null | head -30"}
tool result
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Profile data file '.build/callgrind.runner.out' (creator: callgrind-3.25.1)
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I1 cache:
D1 cache:
LL cache:
Timerange: Basic block 0 - 878589
Trigger: Program termination
Profiled target: /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/corpus_30166.bin (PID 1246, part 1)
Events recorded: Ir
Events shown: Ir
Event sort order: Ir
Thresholds: 99
Include dirs:
User annotated:
Auto-annotation: on
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Ir
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378 (100.0%) PROGRAM TOTALS
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Ir file:function
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364 (96.30%) ???:__cpu_indicator_init [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
14 ( 3.70%) submission/solve.c:json_unescape [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
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-- Auto-annotated source: submission/solve.c
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
The ifunc trick causes callgrind's `--toggle-collect` to fire only on the resolver call (which happens once at load time), hiding all real per-call work from measurement. That's gaming the profiler, not genuine speedup. Reverting to the safe function-pointer dispatch version.
tool call: write
{"content": "// solve.c \u2014 optimized json_unescape.\n//\n// The three \"special\" byte classes (control 0x00-0x1F, '\"'=0x22, '\\\\'=0x5C)\n// are all < 0x80, so every high-bit-set byte is unconditionally plain\n// passthrough. We exploit that with a vectorized scan-and-copy: as we scan\n// for the next special byte we simultaneously write the scanned bytes\n// straight to the output, fusing what would otherwise be a separate memcpy\n// pass over the same memory. This is safe because the output cursor `o`\n// never exceeds the input cursor `i` (every escape consumes >=2 input bytes\n// to produce <=4 output bytes, so input_consumed >= output_produced always),\n// so writing a full vector width at the current output position never\n// overruns the caller-guaranteed `3*in_len+4` capacity, even when the vector\n// spans past the next special byte (the excess bytes are harmless scratch,\n// later overwritten by correctly-positioned subsequent writes, or simply\n// unused if that was the final chunk -- capacity is guaranteed, not that\n// every written byte is \"meaningful\").\n//\n// Two scan-and-copy implementations are provided:\n// - AVX-512 (64 bytes/iteration) and AVX2 (32 bytes/iteration) on x86,\n// selected at runtime.\n// - Portable 8-byte SWAR (Bit Twiddling Hacks haszero/hasless) fallback.\n// The choice is made once via a constructor (run before any measured call);\n// per the grading rules, one-time setup (including CPU feature detection)\n// is not counted, only per-call work.\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <stddef.h>\n#include <string.h>\n\n#define INVALID ((size_t)-1)\n\n// -1 for non-hex-digit bytes, else the nibble value 0-15.\nstatic const int8_t HEXVAL[256] = {\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,\n};\n\nstatic inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {\n int h0 = HEXVAL[p[0]], h1 = HEXVAL[p[1]], h2 = HEXVAL[p[2]], h3 = HEXVAL[p[3]];\n if ((h0 | h1 | h2 | h3) < 0) return -1;\n *out = (unsigned)((h0 << 12) | (h1 << 8) | (h2 << 4) | h3);\n return 0;\n}\n\n// Scans forward from `i` copying plain (non-special) bytes to `out` until\n// hitting a special byte (< 0x20, '\"', or '\\\\') or the input end. Returns\n// the new i; the caller adds (new_i - old_i) to its own output cursor.\ntypedef size_t (*scan_copy_fn)(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);\n\nstatic size_t scan_copy_scalar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n size_t start = i;\n while (i < in_len) {\n uint8_t c = in[i];\n if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;\n out[i - start] = c;\n i++;\n }\n return i;\n}\n\nstatic inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {\n uint64_t v;\n memcpy(&v, p, 8);\n return v;\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {\n return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t hasvalue(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {\n return haszero(x ^ (0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n));\n}\nstatic inline uint64_t hasless(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {\n return (x - 0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL;\n}\n\nstatic size_t sc
... [5992 characters truncated for page size]
tool result
Updated /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c (240 lines):
18- // Three full implementations of json_unescape are generated from one macro
19- // body, differing only in the vector width used for the plain-run scan:
20- // AVX-512 (64B/iter), AVX2 (32B/iter), and portable 8-byte SWAR. The correct
21- // one is selected once via GNU ifunc, so the hot loop contains a direct call
22- // with no per-call dispatch branching or function-pointer indirection.
23- // Per the grading rules, one-time setup (including CPU feature detection via
24- // the ifunc resolver) is not counted, only per-call work.
18+ // Two scan-and-copy implementations are provided:
19+ // - AVX-512 (64 bytes/iteration) and AVX2 (32 bytes/iteration) on x86,
20+ // selected at runtime.
21+ // - Portable 8-byte SWAR (Bit Twiddling Hacks haszero/hasless) fallback.
22+ // The choice is made once via a constructor (run before any measured call);
23+ // per the grading rules, one-time setup (including CPU feature detection)
24+ // is not counted, only per-call work.
58+ // Scans forward from `i` copying plain (non-special) bytes to `out` until
59+ // hitting a special byte (< 0x20, '"', or '\\') or the input end. Returns
60+ // the new i; the caller adds (new_i - old_i) to its own output cursor.
61+ typedef size_t (*scan_copy_fn)(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
115+ // Safe to store the full 64 bytes even when a special byte lies
116+ // within this chunk: o <= i always, so o + 64 <= i + 64 <= in_len
...
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade 2>&1 | tail -20"}
tool result
build 1.3s
verify 0.8s PASS
measure 1.2s 27,385,561 instructions (given: 52,195,902)
SCORE +0.9305 (1.906x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Good, confirmed back to legitimate ~1.9x. Now let's look for further genuine improvements — reduce escape-decode overhead and cross-check with multiple seeds.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && for s in 1 2 3; do ./grade --seed $s 2>&1 | tail -1; done"}
tool result
SCORE +0.9242 (1.898x)
SCORE +0.9007 (1.867x)
SCORE +0.9385 (1.916x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Consistent ~0.9-0.94. Let's profile again to see where remaining cost is.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade --seed 42 --quiet 2>&1\ncallgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,30p'"}
tool result
SCORE +0.9225 (1.895x)
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Profile data file '.build/callgrind.runner.out' (creator: callgrind-3.25.1)
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I1 cache:
D1 cache:
LL cache:
Timerange: Basic block 0 - 953703
Trigger: Program termination
Profiled target: /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/corpus_42.bin (PID 1538, part 1)
Events recorded: Ir
Events shown: Ir
Event sort order: Ir
Thresholds: 99
Include dirs:
User annotated: submission/solve.c
Auto-annotation: on
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Ir
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5,167,391 (100.0%) PROGRAM TOTALS
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Ir file:function
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3,322,466 (64.30%) submission/solve.c:json_unescape [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
968,869 (18.75%) /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avx2intrin.h:scan_copy_avx2 [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
661,902 (12.81%) submission/solve.c:scan_copy_avx2
124,670 ( 2.41%) /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avxintrin.h:scan_copy_avx2
89,484 ( 1.73%) submission/solve.c:scan_copy_swar [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat > /tmp/checkwhich.c << 'EOF'\n#include <stdio.h>\nint main(){\n __builtin_cpu_init();\n int f = __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx512f\");\n int bw = __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx512bw\");\n int vl = __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx512vl\");\n int a2 = __builtin_cpu_supports(\"avx2\");\n printf(\"f=%d bw=%d vl=%d avx2=%d chosen=%s\\n\", f,bw,vl,a2,\n (f&&bw&&vl)?\"avx512\":(a2?\"avx2\":\"swar\"));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 /tmp/checkwhich.c -o /tmp/checkwhich && /tmp/checkwhich\nvalgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/checkwhich 2>&1 | grep chosen"}
tool result
f=32768 bw=2097152 vl=1048576 avx2=1024 chosen=avx512
f=0 bw=0 vl=0 avx2=1024 chosen=avx2
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && callgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null | grep -A 200 \"User-annotated\" | sed -n '190,260p'"}
tool result
-- line 865 ----------------------------------------
. _mm256_store_si256 (__m256i *__P, __m256i __A)
. {
. *__P = __A;
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i __attribute__((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_loadu_si256 (__m256i_u const *__P)
. {
62,335 ( 1.21%) return *__P;
. }
.
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && callgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null > /tmp/ann.txt\nsed -n '/User-annotated source/,/following files/p' /tmp/ann.txt | head -250"}
tool result
-- User-annotated source: submission/solve.c
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ir
-- line 44 ----------------------------------------
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
. };
.
. static inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {
378,580 ( 7.33%) int h0 = HEXVAL[p[0]], h1 = HEXVAL[p[1]], h2 = HEXVAL[p[2]], h3 = HEXVAL[p[3]];
196,260 ( 3.80%) if ((h0 | h1 | h2 | h3) < 0) return -1;
267,794 ( 5.18%) *out = (unsigned)((h0 << 12) | (h1 << 8) | (h2 << 4) | h3);
. return 0;
. }
.
. // Scans forward from `i` copying plain (non-special) bytes to `out` until
. // hitting a special byte (< 0x20, '"', or '\\') or the input end. Returns
. // the new i; the caller adds (new_i - old_i) to its own output cursor.
. typedef size_t (*scan_copy_fn)(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
.
. static size_t scan_copy_scalar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
4,303 ( 0.08%) while (i < in_len) {
1,514 ( 0.03%) uint8_t c = in[i];
9,084 ( 0.18%) if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;
2,314 ( 0.04%) out[i - start] = c;
1,400 ( 0.03%) i++;
. }
. return i;
. }
.
. static inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {
. uint64_t v;
1,317 ( 0.03%) memcpy(&v, p, 8);
. return v;
. }
. static inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {
12,984 ( 0.25%) return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
. }
. static inline uint64_t hasvalue(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
7,716 ( 0.15%) return haszero(x ^ (0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n));
. }
. static inline uint64_t hasless(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
5,175 ( 0.10%) return (x - 0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
. }
.
9,792 ( 0.19%) static size_t scan_copy_swar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
10,944 ( 0.21%) while (i + 8 <= in_len) {
. uint64_t w = load64(in + i);
3,765 ( 0.07%) memcpy(out + (i - start), &w, 8);
3,858 ( 0.07%) uint64_t special = hasless(w, 0x20) | hasvalue(w, 0x22) | hasvalue(w, 0x5C);
2,634 ( 0.05%) if (special) {
1,446 ( 0.03%) int bit = __builtin_ctzll(special);
1,446 ( 0.03%) return i + (size_t)(bit >> 3);
. }
. i += 8;
. }
. return scan_copy_scalar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
9,792 ( 0.19%) }
.
. #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
. #include <immintrin.h>
.
. __attribute__((target("avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl")))
. static size_t scan_copy_avx512(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
. __m512i lo = _mm512_set1_epi8(0x20);
-- line 110 ----------------------------------------
-- line 131 ----------------------------------------
.
. __attribute__((target("avx2")))
. static size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
. __m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);
. __m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);
. __m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);
. __m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));
298,613 ( 5.78%) while (i + 32 <= in_len) {
. __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));
. _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);
. __m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);
. __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20
. __m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);
. __m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);
. __m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);
. unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);
187,005 ( 3.62%) if (mask) {
129,459 ( 2.51%) return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);
. }
. i += 32;
. }
3,672 ( 0.07%) return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
89,484 ( 1.73%) => submission/solve.c:scan_copy_swar (1,224x)
43,153 ( 0.84%) }
. #endif
.
. static scan_copy_fn g_scan_copy = scan_copy_swar;
.
. __attribute__((constructor))
. static void select_scan_impl(void) {
. #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
. __builtin_cpu_init();
-- line 162 ----------------------------------------
-- line 168 ----------------------------------------
. if (__builtin_cpu_supports("avx2")) {
. g_scan_copy = scan_copy_avx2;
. return;
. }
. #endif
. g_scan_copy = scan_copy_swar;
. }
.
6,600 ( 0.13%) size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
1,200 ( 0.02%) size_t i = 0, o = 0;
89,180 ( 1.73%) while (i < in_len) {
. size_t start = i;
221,885 ( 4.29%) i = g_scan_copy(in, i, in_len, out + o);
1,844,925 (35.70%) => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avx2intrin.h:scan_copy_avx2 (44,377x)
133,131 ( 2.58%) o += i - start;
.
88,754 ( 1.72%) if (i >= in_len) break;
.
. uint8_t c = in[i];
87,980 ( 1.70%) if (c != 0x5C) return INVALID; // control byte or bare '"'
.
. // Backslash escape.
131,970 ( 2.55%) if (i + 1 >= in_len) return INVALID;
43,990 ( 0.85%) uint8_t e = in[i + 1];
472,708 ( 9.15%) switch (e) {
56,260 ( 1.09%) case '"': out[o++] = '"'; i += 2; continue;
6,080 ( 0.12%) case '\\': out[o++] = '\\'; i += 2; continue;
6,316 ( 0.12%) case '/': out[o++] = '/'; i += 2; continue;
5,812 ( 0.11%) case 'b': out[o++] = '\b'; i += 2; continue;
5,552 ( 0.11%) case 'f': out[o++] = '\f'; i += 2; continue;
5,552 ( 0.11%) case 'n': out[o++] = '\n'; i += 2; continue;
6,072 ( 0.12%) case 'r': out[o++] = '\r'; i += 2; continue;
5,812 ( 0.11%) case 't': out[o++] = '\t'; i += 2; continue;
. case 'u': break;
. default: return INVALID;
. }
. // \uXXXX
96,846 ( 1.87%) if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID;
. unsigned cu;
32,282 ( 0.62%) if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &cu) < 0) return INVALID;
. i += 6;
. unsigned cp;
96,846 ( 1.87%) if (cu >= 0xD800 && cu <= 0xDBFF) {
48,790 ( 0.94%) if (i + 6 > in_len || in[i] != '\\' || in[i + 1] != 'u')
. return INVALID;
. unsigned lo_cu;
6,970 ( 0.13%) if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &lo_cu) < 0) return INVALID;
20,910 ( 0.40%) if (lo_cu < 0xDC00 || lo_cu > 0xDFFF) return INVALID;
. i += 6;
13,940 ( 0.27%) cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo_cu - 0xDC00);
75,936 ( 1.47%) } else if (cu >= 0xDC00 && cu <= 0xDFFF) {
. return INVALID;
. } else {
. cp = cu;
. }
. // Emit UTF-8.
50,624 ( 0.98%) if (cp < 0x80) {
108 ( 0.00%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)cp;
50,516 ( 0.98%) } else if (cp < 0x800) {
52,060 ( 1.01%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cp >> 6));
28,346 ( 0.55%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
48,972 ( 0.95%) } else if (cp < 0x10000) {
97,944 ( 1.90%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xE0 | (cp >> 12));
. out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
122,430 ( 2.37%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
. } else {
27,880 ( 0.54%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));
60,108 ( 1.16%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));
132,794 ( 2.57%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
34,850 ( 0.67%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
. }
. }
426 ( 0.01%) return o;
5,400 ( 0.10%) }
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Auto-annotated source: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avxintrin.h
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ir
-- line 865 ----------------------------------------
. _mm256_store_si256 (__m256i *__P, __m256i __A)
. {
. *__P = __A;
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i __attribute__((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_loadu_si256 (__m256i_u const *__P)
. {
62,335 ( 1.21%) return *__P;
. }
.
. extern __inline void __attribute__((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_storeu_si256 (__m256i_u *__P, __m256i __A)
. {
62,335 ( 1.21%) *__P = __A;
. }
.
. extern __inline __m128d __attribute__((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm_maskload_pd (double const *__P, __m128i __M)
. {
. return (__m128d) __builtin_ia32_maskloadpd ((const __v2df *)__P,
. (__v2di)__M);
. }
-- line 887 ----------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Auto-annotated source: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avx2intrin.h
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ir
-- line 225 ----------------------------------------
. ((__m256i) __builtin_ia32_pblendw256 ((__v16hi)(__m256i)(X), \
. (__v16hi)(__m256i)(Y), (int)(M)))
. #endif
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpeq_epi8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
390,932 ( 7.57%) return (__m256i) ((__
... [943 characters truncated for page size]
assistant
Let's optimize hex4 parsing with 16-bit paired lookup tables (no cache cost is counted, only instruction count).
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat > /tmp/hexgen.py << 'EOF'\ndef hexval(c):\n if 0x30<=c<=0x39: return c-0x30\n if 0x61<=c<=0x66: return c-0x61+10\n if 0x41<=c<=0x46: return c-0x41+10\n return None\nEOF\necho ok"}
tool result
ok
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && python3 - << 'EOF'\ndef hexval(c):\n if 0x30<=c<=0x39: return c-0x30\n if 0x61<=c<=0x66: return c-0x61+10\n if 0x41<=c<=0x46: return c-0x41+10\n return None\n# quick check count of valid pairs\ncnt=0\nfor c0 in range(256):\n for c1 in range(256):\n h0=hexval(c0); h1=hexval(c1)\n if h0 is not None and h1 is not None:\n cnt+=1\nprint(cnt)\nEOF"}
tool result
484
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: edit
{"file_path": "/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c", "old_string": "static inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {\n int h0 = HEXVAL[p[0]], h1 = HEXVAL[p[1]], h2 = HEXVAL[p[2]], h3 = HEXVAL[p[3]];\n if ((h0 | h1 | h2 | h3) < 0) return -1;\n *out = (unsigned)((h0 << 12) | (h1 << 8) | (h2 << 4) | h3);\n return 0;\n}", "new_string": "// HEXPAIR[w], where w = p[0] | (p[1] << 8) (i.e. a native-endian 16-bit load\n// of two consecutive input bytes), gives the combined byte value\n// (hexval(p[0]) << 4) | hexval(p[1]) if both are hex digits, else -1. This\n// turns \"decode 2 hex digits\" into a single table lookup instead of two\n// lookups + an OR + a shift. Built once by a constructor (compile-time\n// setup is not counted; only per-call work is).\nstatic int16_t HEXPAIR[65536];\n\n__attribute__((constructor))\nstatic void init_hexpair(void) {\n for (int b1 = 0; b1 < 256; b1++) {\n int h1 = HEXVAL[b1];\n for (int b0 = 0; b0 < 256; b0++) {\n int h0 = HEXVAL[b0];\n int idx = b0 | (b1 << 8);\n HEXPAIR[idx] = (int16_t)((h0 < 0 || h1 < 0) ? -1 : ((h0 << 4) | h1));\n }\n }\n}\n\nstatic inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {\n uint16_t w0, w1;\n memcpy(&w0, p, 2);\n memcpy(&w1, p + 2, 2);\n int hi = HEXPAIR[w0];\n int lo = HEXPAIR[w1];\n if ((hi | lo) < 0) return -1;\n *out = (unsigned)((hi << 8) | lo);\n return 0;\n}"}
tool result
Edited /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c: replaced 1 occurrence(s)
51+ // HEXPAIR[w], where w = p[0] | (p[1] << 8) (i.e. a native-endian 16-bit load
52+ // of two consecutive input bytes), gives the combined byte value
53+ // (hexval(p[0]) << 4) | hexval(p[1]) if both are hex digits, else -1. This
54+ // turns "decode 2 hex digits" into a single table lookup instead of two
55+ // lookups + an OR + a shift. Built once by a constructor (compile-time
56+ // setup is not counted; only per-call work is).
57+ static int16_t HEXPAIR[65536];
59+ __attribute__((constructor))
60+ static void init_hexpair(void) {
61+ for (int b1 = 0; b1 < 256; b1++) {
62+ int h1 = HEXVAL[b1];
63+ for (int b0 = 0; b0 < 256; b0++) {
64+ int h0 = HEXVAL[b0];
65+ int idx = b0 | (b1 << 8);
66+ HEXPAIR[idx] = (int16_t)((h0 < 0 || h1 < 0) ? -1 : ((h0 << 4) | h1));
67+ }
68+ }
69+ }
52- int h0 = HEXVAL[p[0]], h1 = HEXVAL[p[1]], h2 = HEXVAL[p[2]], h3 = HEXVAL[p[3]];
53- if ((h0 | h1 | h2 | h3) < 0) return -1;
54- *out = (unsigned)((h0 << 12) | (h1 << 8) | (h2 << 4) | h3);
72+ uint16_t w0, w1;
73+ memcpy(&w0, p, 2);
74+ memcpy(&w1, p + 2, 2);
75+ int hi = HEXPAIR[w0];
76+ int lo = HEXPAIR[w1];
77+ if ((hi | lo) < 0) return -1;
78+ *out = (unsigned)((hi << 8) | lo);
Context after edit (lines 48-83):
48│ -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
49│ };
50│
51│ // HEXPAIR[w], where w = p[0] | (p[1] << 8) (i.e. a native-endian 16-bit load
52│ // of two consecutive input bytes), gives the combined byte value
53│ // (hexval(p[0]) << 4) | hexval(p[1]) if both are hex digits, else -1. This
54│ // turns "decode 2 hex digits" into a single table lookup instead of two
55│ // lookups + an OR + a shift. Built once by a constructor (compile-time
56│ // setup is not counted; only per-call work is).
57│ static int16_t HEXPAIR[65536];
58│
59│ __attribute__((constructor))
60│ static void init_hexpair(void) {
61│ for (int b1 = 0; b1 < 256; b1++) {
62│ int h1 = HEXVAL[b1];
63│ for (int b0 = 0; b0 < 256; b0++) {
64│ int h0 = HEXVAL[b0];
65│ int idx = b0 | (b1 << 8);
66│ HEXPAIR[idx] = (int16_t)((h0 < 0 || h1 < 0) ? -1 : ((h0 << 4) | h1));
67│ }
68│ }
69│ }
70│
71│ static inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {
72│ uint16_t w0, w1;
73│ memcpy(&w0, p, 2);
74│ memcpy(&w1, p + 2, 2);
75│ int hi = HEXPAIR[w0];
76│ int lo = HEXPAIR[w1];
77│ if ((hi | lo) < 0) return -1;
78│ *out = (unsigned)((hi << 8) | lo);
79│ return 0;
80│ }
81│
82│ // Scans forward from `i` copying plain (non-special) bytes to `out` until
83│ // hitting a special byte (< 0x20, '"', or '\\') or the input end. Returns
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
build 1.4s
verify 0.8s PASS
measure 1.1s 25,820,229 instructions (given: 53,319,968)
SCORE +1.0462 (2.065x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Good improvement, over 2x now. Let's check multiple seeds and profile further.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && for s in 1 2 3; do ./grade --seed $s 2>&1 | tail -1; done"}
tool result
SCORE +1.0596 (2.084x)
SCORE +1.0360 (2.051x)
SCORE +1.0721 (2.102x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Consistent ~2.06x. Let's profile again to find remaining opportunities.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade --seed 42 --quiet 2>&1\ncallgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null > /tmp/ann2.txt\nsed -n '/User-annotated source/,/following files/p' /tmp/ann2.txt"}
tool result
SCORE +1.0573 (2.081x)
-- User-annotated source: submission/solve.c
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ir
-- line 67 ----------------------------------------
. }
. }
. }
.
. static inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {
. uint16_t w0, w1;
. memcpy(&w0, p, 2);
. memcpy(&w1, p + 2, 2);
110,786 ( 2.34%) int hi = HEXPAIR[w0];
78,504 ( 1.66%) int lo = HEXPAIR[w1];
117,756 ( 2.48%) if ((hi | lo) < 0) return -1;
110,786 ( 2.34%) *out = (unsigned)((hi << 8) | lo);
. return 0;
. }
.
. // Scans forward from `i` copying plain (non-special) bytes to `out` until
. // hitting a special byte (< 0x20, '"', or '\\') or the input end. Returns
. // the new i; the caller adds (new_i - old_i) to its own output cursor.
. typedef size_t (*scan_copy_fn)(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
.
. static size_t scan_copy_scalar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
4,303 ( 0.09%) while (i < in_len) {
1,514 ( 0.03%) uint8_t c = in[i];
9,084 ( 0.19%) if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;
2,314 ( 0.05%) out[i - start] = c;
1,400 ( 0.03%) i++;
. }
. return i;
. }
.
. static inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {
. uint64_t v;
1,317 ( 0.03%) memcpy(&v, p, 8);
. return v;
. }
. static inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {
12,984 ( 0.27%) return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
. }
. static inline uint64_t hasvalue(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
7,716 ( 0.16%) return haszero(x ^ (0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n));
. }
. static inline uint64_t hasless(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
5,175 ( 0.11%) return (x - 0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
. }
.
9,792 ( 0.21%) static size_t scan_copy_swar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
10,944 ( 0.23%) while (i + 8 <= in_len) {
. uint64_t w = load64(in + i);
3,765 ( 0.08%) memcpy(out + (i - start), &w, 8);
3,858 ( 0.08%) uint64_t special = hasless(w, 0x20) | hasvalue(w, 0x22) | hasvalue(w, 0x5C);
2,634 ( 0.06%) if (special) {
1,446 ( 0.03%) int bit = __builtin_ctzll(special);
1,446 ( 0.03%) return i + (size_t)(bit >> 3);
. }
. i += 8;
. }
. return scan_copy_scalar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
9,792 ( 0.21%) }
.
. #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
. #include <immintrin.h>
.
. __attribute__((target("avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl")))
. static size_t scan_copy_avx512(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
. __m512i lo = _mm512_set1_epi8(0x20);
-- line 134 ----------------------------------------
-- line 155 ----------------------------------------
.
. __attribute__((target("avx2")))
. static size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
. __m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);
. __m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);
. __m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);
. __m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));
298,613 ( 6.30%) while (i + 32 <= in_len) {
. __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));
. _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);
. __m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);
. __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20
. __m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);
. __m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);
. __m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);
. unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);
187,005 ( 3.94%) if (mask) {
129,459 ( 2.73%) return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);
. }
. i += 32;
. }
3,672 ( 0.08%) return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
89,484 ( 1.89%) => submission/solve.c:scan_copy_swar (1,224x)
43,153 ( 0.91%) }
. #endif
.
. static scan_copy_fn g_scan_copy = scan_copy_swar;
.
. __attribute__((constructor))
. static void select_scan_impl(void) {
. #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
. __builtin_cpu_init();
-- line 186 ----------------------------------------
-- line 192 ----------------------------------------
. if (__builtin_cpu_supports("avx2")) {
. g_scan_copy = scan_copy_avx2;
. return;
. }
. #endif
. g_scan_copy = scan_copy_swar;
. }
.
6,600 ( 0.14%) size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
1,200 ( 0.03%) size_t i = 0, o = 0;
89,180 ( 1.88%) while (i < in_len) {
. size_t start = i;
221,885 ( 4.68%) i = g_scan_copy(in, i, in_len, out + o);
1,844,925 (38.90%) => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avx2intrin.h:scan_copy_avx2 (44,377x)
133,131 ( 2.81%) o += i - start;
.
88,754 ( 1.87%) if (i >= in_len) break;
.
. uint8_t c = in[i];
87,980 ( 1.86%) if (c != 0x5C) return INVALID; // control byte or bare '"'
.
. // Backslash escape.
131,970 ( 2.78%) if (i + 1 >= in_len) return INVALID;
43,990 ( 0.93%) uint8_t e = in[i + 1];
472,708 ( 9.97%) switch (e) {
56,260 ( 1.19%) case '"': out[o++] = '"'; i += 2; continue;
6,080 ( 0.13%) case '\\': out[o++] = '\\'; i += 2; continue;
6,316 ( 0.13%) case '/': out[o++] = '/'; i += 2; continue;
5,812 ( 0.12%) case 'b': out[o++] = '\b'; i += 2; continue;
5,552 ( 0.12%) case 'f': out[o++] = '\f'; i += 2; continue;
5,552 ( 0.12%) case 'n': out[o++] = '\n'; i += 2; continue;
6,072 ( 0.13%) case 'r': out[o++] = '\r'; i += 2; continue;
5,812 ( 0.12%) case 't': out[o++] = '\t'; i += 2; continue;
. case 'u': break;
. default: return INVALID;
. }
. // \uXXXX
96,846 ( 2.04%) if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID;
. unsigned cu;
32,282 ( 0.68%) if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &cu) < 0) return INVALID;
. i += 6;
. unsigned cp;
96,846 ( 2.04%) if (cu >= 0xD800 && cu <= 0xDBFF) {
48,790 ( 1.03%) if (i + 6 > in_len || in[i] != '\\' || in[i + 1] != 'u')
. return INVALID;
. unsigned lo_cu;
6,970 ( 0.15%) if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &lo_cu) < 0) return INVALID;
20,910 ( 0.44%) if (lo_cu < 0xDC00 || lo_cu > 0xDFFF) return INVALID;
. i += 6;
13,940 ( 0.29%) cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo_cu - 0xDC00);
75,936 ( 1.60%) } else if (cu >= 0xDC00 && cu <= 0xDFFF) {
. return INVALID;
. } else {
. cp = cu;
. }
. // Emit UTF-8.
50,624 ( 1.07%) if (cp < 0x80) {
108 ( 0.00%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)cp;
50,516 ( 1.07%) } else if (cp < 0x800) {
52,060 ( 1.10%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cp >> 6));
28,346 ( 0.60%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
48,972 ( 1.03%) } else if (cp < 0x10000) {
97,944 ( 2.07%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xE0 | (cp >> 12));
. out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
122,430 ( 2.58%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
. } else {
27,880 ( 0.59%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));
60,108 ( 1.27%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));
132,794 ( 2.80%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
34,850 ( 0.73%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
. }
. }
426 ( 0.01%) return o;
5,400 ( 0.11%) }
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Auto-annotated source: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avx2intrin.h
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ir
-- line 225 ----------------------------------------
. ((__m256i) __builtin_ia32_pblendw256 ((__v16hi)(__m256i)(X), \
. (__v16hi)(__m256i)(Y), (int)(M)))
. #endif
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpeq_epi8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
390,932 ( 8.24%) return (__m256i) ((__v32qi)__A == (__v32qi)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpeq_epi16 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v16hi)__A == (__v16hi)__B);
. }
-- line 241 ----------------------------------------
-- line 253 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v4di)__A == (__v4di)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpgt_epi8 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
195,466 ( 4.12%) return (__m256i) ((__v32qs)__A > (__v32qs)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline __m256i
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inline__, __artificial__))
. _mm256_cmpgt_epi16 (__m256i __A, __m256i __B)
. {
. return (__m256i) ((__v16hi)__A > (__v16hi)__B);
. }
-- line 269 ----------------------------------------
-- line 427 ----------------------------------------
. {
. return (__m256i)__builtin_ia32_pminud256 ((__v8si)__A, (__v8si)__B);
. }
.
. extern __inline int
. __attribute__ ((__gnu_inline__, __always_inlin
... [3950 characters truncated for page size]
tool call: bash
{"command": "/tmp/checkwhich\necho \"--- under valgrind (memcheck) ---\"\nvalgrind /tmp/checkwhich 2>&1 | grep chosen\necho \"--- under callgrind ---\"\nvalgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/checkwhich 2>&1 | grep chosen"}
tool result
f=32768 bw=2097152 vl=1048576 avx2=1024 chosen=avx512
--- under valgrind (memcheck) ---
f=0 bw=0 vl=0 avx2=1024 chosen=avx2
--- under callgrind ---
f=0 bw=0 vl=0 avx2=1024 chosen=avx2
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner --disassemble=json_unescape -M intel 2>/dev/null | sed -n '1,90p'"}
tool result
.build/runner: file format elf64-x86-64
Disassembly of section .init:
Disassembly of section .plt:
Disassembly of section .text:
0000000000002d40 <json_unescape>:
2d40: 48 85 f6 test rsi,rsi
2d43: 0f 84 ca 02 00 00 je 3013 <json_unescape+0x2d3>
2d49: 41 57 push r15
2d4b: 49 89 ff mov r15,rdi
2d4e: 41 56 push r14
2d50: 49 89 d6 mov r14,rdx
2d53: 41 55 push r13
2d55: 45 31 ed xor r13d,r13d
2d58: 41 54 push r12
2d5a: 49 89 f4 mov r12,rsi
2d5d: 55 push rbp
2d5e: 48 8d 2d bb 12 00 00 lea rbp,[rip+0x12bb] # 4020 <_IO_stdin_used+0x20>
2d65: 53 push rbx
2d66: 31 db xor ebx,ebx
2d68: 48 83 ec 08 sub rsp,0x8
2d6c: 0f 1f 40 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax+0x0]
2d70: 49 8d 0c 1e lea rcx,[r14+rbx*1]
2d74: 4c 89 e2 mov rdx,r12
2d77: 4c 89 ee mov rsi,r13
2d7a: 4c 89 ff mov rdi,r15
2d7d: ff 15 dd 32 00 00 call QWORD PTR [rip+0x32dd] # 6060 <g_scan_copy>
2d83: 48 01 c3 add rbx,rax
2d86: 4c 29 eb sub rbx,r13
2d89: 48 89 d9 mov rcx,rbx
2d8c: 4c 39 e0 cmp rax,r12
2d8f: 73 46 jae 2dd7 <json_unescape+0x97>
2d91: 41 80 3c 07 5c cmp BYTE PTR [r15+rax*1],0x5c
2d96: 75 38 jne 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2d98: 48 8d 50 01 lea rdx,[rax+0x1]
2d9c: 4c 39 e2 cmp rdx,r12
2d9f: 73 2f jae 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2da1: 41 0f b6 54 07 01 movzx edx,BYTE PTR [r15+rax*1+0x1]
2da7: 80 fa 75 cmp dl,0x75
2daa: 77 24 ja 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2dac: 80 fa 5b cmp dl,0x5b
2daf: 0f 86 9b 01 00 00 jbe 2f50 <json_unescape+0x210>
2db5: 83 ea 5c sub edx,0x5c
2db8: 80 fa 19 cmp dl,0x19
2dbb: 77 13 ja 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2dbd: 0f b6 d2 movzx edx,dl
2dc0: 48 63 54 95 00 movsxd rdx,DWORD PTR [rbp+rdx*4+0x0]
2dc5: 48 01 ea add rdx,rbp
2dc8: ff e2 jmp rdx
2dca: 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2dd0: 48 c7 c1 ff ff ff ff mov rcx,0xffffffffffffffff
2dd7: 48 83 c4 08 add rsp,0x8
2ddb: 48 89 c8 mov rax,rcx
2dde: 5b pop rbx
2ddf: 5d pop rbp
2de0: 41 5c pop r12
2de2: 41 5d pop r13
2de4: 41 5e pop r14
2de6: 41 5f pop r15
2de8: c3 ret
2de9: 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax+0x0]
2df0: 4c 8d 68 06 lea r13,[rax+0x6]
2df4: 4d 39 ec cmp r12,r13
2df7: 72 d7 jb 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2df9: 49 8d 74 07 02 lea rsi,[r15+rax*1+0x2]
2dfe: 48 8d 3d 9b 32 00 00 lea rdi,[rip+0x329b] # 60a0 <HEXPAIR>
2e05: 0f b7 16 movzx edx,WORD PTR [rsi]
2e08: 0f b7 76 02 movzx esi,WORD PTR [rsi+0x2]
2e0c: 0f bf 14 57 movsx edx,WORD PTR [rdi+rdx*2]
2e10: 0f bf 34 77 movsx esi,WORD PTR [rdi+rsi*2]
2e14: 89 d3 mov ebx,edx
2e16: 66 09 f3 or bx,si
2e19: 78 b5 js 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2e1b: c1 e2 08 shl edx,0x8
2e1e: 09 f2 or edx,esi
2e20: 44 8d 82 00 28 ff ff lea r8d,[rdx-0xd800]
2e27: 89 d6 mov esi,edx
2e29: 41 81 f8 ff 03 00 00 cmp r8d,0x3ff
2e30: 0f 87 52 01 00 00 ja 2f88 <json_unescape+0x248>
2e36: 4c 8d 68 0c lea r13,[rax+0xc]
2e3a: 4d 39 ec cmp r12,r13
2e3d: 72 91 jb 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2e3f: 41 80 7c 07 06 5c cmp BYTE PTR [r15+rax*1+0x6],0x5c
2e45: 75 89 jne 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2e47: 41 80 7c 07 07 75 cmp BYTE PTR [r15+rax*1+0x7],0x75
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner --disassemble=json_unescape -M intel 2>/dev/null | sed -n '90,180p'"}
tool result
2e47: 41 80 7c 07 07 75 cmp BYTE PTR [r15+rax*1+0x7],0x75
2e4d: 75 81 jne 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2e4f: 49 8d 54 07 08 lea rdx,[r15+rax*1+0x8]
2e54: 0f b7 02 movzx eax,WORD PTR [rdx]
2e57: 0f b7 52 02 movzx edx,WORD PTR [rdx+0x2]
2e5b: 0f bf 04 47 movsx eax,WORD PTR [rdi+rax*2]
2e5f: 0f bf 14 57 movsx edx,WORD PTR [rdi+rdx*2]
2e63: 89 c7 mov edi,eax
2e65: 66 09 d7 or di,dx
2e68: 0f 88 62 ff ff ff js 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2e6e: c1 e0 08 shl eax,0x8
2e71: 09 d0 or eax,edx
2e73: 8d 90 00 24 ff ff lea edx,[rax-0xdc00]
2e79: 81 fa ff 03 00 00 cmp edx,0x3ff
2e7f: 0f 87 4b ff ff ff ja 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2e85: 41 c1 e0 0a shl r8d,0xa
2e89: 42 8d b4 00 00 24 00 lea esi,[rax+r8*1+0x2400]
2e90: 00
2e91: 89 f0 mov eax,esi
2e93: 48 8d 59 04 lea rbx,[rcx+0x4]
2e97: c1 e8 12 shr eax,0x12
2e9a: 83 c8 f0 or eax,0xfffffff0
2e9d: 41 88 04 0e mov BYTE PTR [r14+rcx*1],al
2ea1: 89 f0 mov eax,esi
2ea3: c1 e8 0c shr eax,0xc
2ea6: 83 e0 3f and eax,0x3f
2ea9: 83 c8 80 or eax,0xffffff80
2eac: 41 88 44 0e 01 mov BYTE PTR [r14+rcx*1+0x1],al
2eb1: 89 f0 mov eax,esi
2eb3: 83 e6 3f and esi,0x3f
2eb6: c1 e8 06 shr eax,0x6
2eb9: 83 ce 80 or esi,0xffffff80
2ebc: 83 e0 3f and eax,0x3f
2ebf: 41 88 74 0e 03 mov BYTE PTR [r14+rcx*1+0x3],sil
2ec4: 83 c8 80 or eax,0xffffff80
2ec7: 41 88 44 0e 02 mov BYTE PTR [r14+rcx*1+0x2],al
2ecc: eb 12 jmp 2ee0 <json_unescape+0x1a0>
2ece: 66 90 xchg ax,ax
2ed0: 41 c6 04 0e 09 mov BYTE PTR [r14+rcx*1],0x9
2ed5: 48 8d 5b 01 lea rbx,[rbx+0x1]
2ed9: 4c 8d 68 02 lea r13,[rax+0x2]
2edd: 0f 1f 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax]
2ee0: 4d 39 e5 cmp r13,r12
2ee3: 0f 82 87 fe ff ff jb 2d70 <json_unescape+0x30>
2ee9: 48 89 d9 mov rcx,rbx
2eec: e9 e6 fe ff ff jmp 2dd7 <json_unescape+0x97>
2ef1: 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax+0x0]
2ef8: 41 c6 04 0e 0d mov BYTE PTR [r14+rcx*1],0xd
2efd: 48 8d 5b 01 lea rbx,[rbx+0x1]
2f01: 4c 8d 68 02 lea r13,[rax+0x2]
2f05: eb d9 jmp 2ee0 <json_unescape+0x1a0>
2f07: 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2f0e: 00 00
2f10: 41 c6 04 0e 0a mov BYTE PTR [r14+rcx*1],0xa
2f15: 48 8d 5b 01 lea rbx,[rbx+0x1]
2f19: 4c 8d 68 02 lea r13,[rax+0x2]
2f1d: eb c1 jmp 2ee0 <json_unescape+0x1a0>
2f1f: 90 nop
2f20: 41 c6 04 0e 0c mov BYTE PTR [r14+rcx*1],0xc
2f25: 48 8d 5b 01 lea rbx,[rbx+0x1]
2f29: 4c 8d 68 02 lea r13,[rax+0x2]
2f2d: eb b1 jmp 2ee0 <json_unescape+0x1a0>
2f2f: 90 nop
2f30: 41 c6 04 0e 08 mov BYTE PTR [r14+rcx*1],0x8
2f35: 48 8d 5b 01 lea rbx,[rbx+0x1]
2f39: 4c 8d 68 02 lea r13,[rax+0x2]
2f3d: eb a1 jmp 2ee0 <json_unescape+0x1a0>
2f3f: 90 nop
2f40: 41 c6 04 0e 5c mov BYTE PTR [r14+rcx*1],0x5c
2f45: 48 8d 5b 01 lea rbx,[rbx+0x1]
2f49: 4c 8d 68 02 lea r13,[rax+0x2]
2f4d: eb 91 jmp 2ee0 <json_unescape+0x1a0>
2f4f: 90 nop
2f50: 80 fa 22 cmp dl,0x22
2f53: 74 1b je 2f70 <json_unescape+0x230>
2f55: 80 fa 2f cmp dl,0x2f
2f58: 0f 85 72 fe ff ff jne 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2f5e: 41 c6 04 0e 2f mov BYTE PTR [r14+rcx*1],0x2f
2f63: 48 8d 5b 01 lea rbx,[rbx+0x1]
2f67: 4c 8d 68 02 lea r13,[rax+0x2]
2f6b: e9 70 ff ff ff jmp 2ee0 <json_unescape+0x1a0>
2f70: 41 c6 04 0e 22 mov BYTE PTR [r14+rcx*1],0x22
2f75: 48 8d 5b 01 lea rbx,[rbx+0x1]
2f79: 4c 8d 68 02 lea r13,[rax+0x2]
2f7d: e9 5e ff ff ff jmp 2ee0 <json_unescape+0x1a0>
2f82: 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2f88: 8d 82 00 24 ff ff lea eax,[rdx-0xdc00]
2f8e: 3d ff 03 00 00 cmp eax,0x3ff
2f93: 0f 86 37 fe ff ff jbe 2dd0 <json_unescape+0x90>
2f99: 4d 8d 04 0e lea r8,[r14+rcx*1]
2f9d: 48 8d 59 01 lea rbx,[rcx+0x1]
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Code generation looks reasonably tight already. Let's see if reducing the number of branches for common escape kinds via table-driven decode helps, and check the surrogate branch structure.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && python3 -c \"\nimport struct\nwith open('.build/corpus_42.bin','rb') as f:\n data=f.read()\noff=0\nn=0\nesc=0\ntot=0\nuesc=0\nsurresc=0\nwhile off+4<=len(data):\n ln=struct.unpack('<I',data[off:off+4])[0]\n off+=4\n rec=data[off:off+ln]\n off+=ln\n tot+=ln\n n+=1\n esc+=rec.count(b'\\\\\\\\')\n uesc+=rec.count(b'\\\\\\\\u')\nprint(n,tot,esc,uesc)\n\""}
tool result
600 1066619 52480 39261
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && python3 -c \"\nimport struct\nwith open('.build/corpus_42.bin','rb') as f:\n data=f.read()\noff=0\nn=0\ntot=0\nrunlen_total=0\nruns=0\nwhile off+4<=len(data):\n ln=struct.unpack('<I',data[off:off+4])[0]\n off+=4\n rec=data[off:off+ln]\n off+=ln\n tot+=ln\n n+=1\n i=0\n cur=0\n while i<len(rec):\n c=rec[i]\n if c<0x20 or c==0x22 or c==0x5c:\n runs+=1\n runlen_total+=cur\n cur=0\n if c==0x5c:\n # skip escape roughly\n i+=2\n continue\n else:\n cur+=1\n i+=1\n runlen_total+=cur\n runs+=1\nprint('avg run len', runlen_total/runs, 'runs',runs)\n\""}
tool result
avg run len 18.71022110162917 runs 51560
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner --disassemble=scan_copy_avx2 -M intel 2>/dev/null"}
tool result
.build/runner: file format elf64-x86-64
Disassembly of section .init:
Disassembly of section .plt:
Disassembly of section .text:
0000000000002be0 <scan_copy_avx2>:
2be0: b8 5c 5c 5c 5c mov eax,0x5c5c5c5c
2be5: c5 f9 6e f0 vmovd xmm6,eax
2be9: b8 22 22 22 22 mov eax,0x22222222
2bee: c5 f9 6e e8 vmovd xmm5,eax
2bf2: b8 80 80 80 80 mov eax,0x80808080
2bf7: c4 e2 7d 58 f6 vpbroadcastd ymm6,xmm6
2bfc: c5 f9 6e e0 vmovd xmm4,eax
2c00: b8 a0 a0 a0 a0 mov eax,0xa0a0a0a0
2c05: c4 e2 7d 58 ed vpbroadcastd ymm5,xmm5
2c0a: c5 f9 6e d8 vmovd xmm3,eax
2c0e: c4 e2 7d 58 e4 vpbroadcastd ymm4,xmm4
2c13: c4 e2 7d 58 db vpbroadcastd ymm3,xmm3
2c18: eb 55 jmp 2c6f <scan_copy_avx2+0x8f>
2c1a: 0f 1f 44 00 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2c1f: 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 data16 cs nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2c26: 00 00 00 00
2c2a: 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 data16 cs nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2c31: 00 00 00 00
2c35: 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 data16 cs nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2c3c: 00 00 00 00
2c40: c5 fe 6f 44 37 e0 vmovdqu ymm0,YMMWORD PTR [rdi+rsi*1-0x20]
2c46: 48 83 c1 20 add rcx,0x20
2c4a: c5 fd 74 ce vpcmpeqb ymm1,ymm0,ymm6
2c4e: c5 fd 74 d5 vpcmpeqb ymm2,ymm0,ymm5
2c52: c5 fe 7f 41 e0 vmovdqu YMMWORD PTR [rcx-0x20],ymm0
2c57: c5 fd fc c4 vpaddb ymm0,ymm0,ymm4
2c5b: c5 e5 64 c0 vpcmpgtb ymm0,ymm3,ymm0
2c5f: c5 f5 eb ca vpor ymm1,ymm1,ymm2
2c63: c5 f5 eb c0 vpor ymm0,ymm1,ymm0
2c67: c5 fd d7 c0 vpmovmskb eax,ymm0
2c6b: 85 c0 test eax,eax
2c6d: 75 21 jne 2c90 <scan_copy_avx2+0xb0>
2c6f: 49 89 f0 mov r8,rsi
2c72: 48 83 c6 20 add rsi,0x20
2c76: 48 39 f2 cmp rdx,rsi
2c79: 73 c5 jae 2c40 <scan_copy_avx2+0x60>
2c7b: 4c 89 c6 mov rsi,r8
2c7e: c5 f8 77 vzeroupper
2c81: e9 3a fe ff ff jmp 2ac0 <scan_copy_swar>
2c86: 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 cs nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2c8d: 00 00 00
2c90: f3 0f bc c0 tzcnt eax,eax
2c94: 4c 01 c0 add rax,r8
2c97: c5 f8 77 vzeroupper
2c9a: c3 ret
Disassembly of section .fini:
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && sed -n '/size_t json_unescape/,/^}/p' submission/solve.c | head -100"}
tool result
size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
size_t i = 0, o = 0;
while (i < in_len) {
size_t start = i;
i = g_scan_copy(in, i, in_len, out + o);
o += i - start;
if (i >= in_len) break;
uint8_t c = in[i];
if (c != 0x5C) return INVALID; // control byte or bare '"'
// Backslash escape.
if (i + 1 >= in_len) return INVALID;
uint8_t e = in[i + 1];
switch (e) {
case '"': out[o++] = '"'; i += 2; continue;
case '\\': out[o++] = '\\'; i += 2; continue;
case '/': out[o++] = '/'; i += 2; continue;
case 'b': out[o++] = '\b'; i += 2; continue;
case 'f': out[o++] = '\f'; i += 2; continue;
case 'n': out[o++] = '\n'; i += 2; continue;
case 'r': out[o++] = '\r'; i += 2; continue;
case 't': out[o++] = '\t'; i += 2; continue;
case 'u': break;
default: return INVALID;
}
// \uXXXX
if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID;
unsigned cu;
if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &cu) < 0) return INVALID;
i += 6;
unsigned cp;
if (cu >= 0xD800 && cu <= 0xDBFF) {
if (i + 6 > in_len || in[i] != '\\' || in[i + 1] != 'u')
return INVALID;
unsigned lo_cu;
if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &lo_cu) < 0) return INVALID;
if (lo_cu < 0xDC00 || lo_cu > 0xDFFF) return INVALID;
i += 6;
cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo_cu - 0xDC00);
} else if (cu >= 0xDC00 && cu <= 0xDFFF) {
return INVALID;
} else {
cp = cu;
}
// Emit UTF-8.
if (cp < 0x80) {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)cp;
} else if (cp < 0x800) {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cp >> 6));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
} else if (cp < 0x10000) {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xE0 | (cp >> 12));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
} else {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
}
}
return o;
}
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "python3 -c \"\nvals=[50624,108,50516,52060,28346,48972,97944,122430,27880,60108,132794,34850]\nprint(sum(vals))\n\""}
tool result
706632
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: edit
{"file_path": "/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c", "old_string": " // \\uXXXX\n if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID;\n unsigned cu;\n if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &cu) < 0) return INVALID;\n i += 6;\n unsigned cp;\n if (cu >= 0xD800 && cu <= 0xDBFF) {\n if (i + 6 > in_len || in[i] != '\\\\' || in[i + 1] != 'u')\n return INVALID;\n unsigned lo_cu;\n if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &lo_cu) < 0) return INVALID;\n if (lo_cu < 0xDC00 || lo_cu > 0xDFFF) return INVALID;\n i += 6;\n cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo_cu - 0xDC00);\n } else if (cu >= 0xDC00 && cu <= 0xDFFF) {\n return INVALID;\n } else {\n cp = cu;\n }\n // Emit UTF-8.\n if (cp < 0x80) {\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)cp;\n } else if (cp < 0x800) {\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cp >> 6));\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));\n } else if (cp < 0x10000) {\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xE0 | (cp >> 12));\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));\n } else {\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));\n }\n }\n return o;\n}", "new_string": " // \\uXXXX\n if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID;\n unsigned cu;\n if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &cu) < 0) return INVALID;\n i += 6;\n if (cu >= 0xD800 && cu <= 0xDBFF) {\n if (i + 6 > in_len || in[i] != '\\\\' || in[i + 1] != 'u')\n return INVALID;\n unsigned lo_cu;\n if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &lo_cu) < 0) return INVALID;\n if (lo_cu < 0xDC00 || lo_cu > 0xDFFF) return INVALID;\n i += 6;\n unsigned cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo_cu - 0xDC00);\n // Surrogate pairs always decode to a supplementary code point\n // (>= 0x10000), which is always exactly 4 UTF-8 bytes: no need\n // to re-check the length thresholds.\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));\n continue;\n } else if (cu >= 0xDC00 && cu <= 0xDFFF) {\n return INVALID;\n }\n // A lone \\uXXXX (not part of a surrogate pair) is always a BMP code\n // point outside the surrogate range, i.e. < 0x10000: only 3 length\n // classes are possible.\n if (cu < 0x80) {\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)cu;\n } else if (cu < 0x800) {\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cu >> 6));\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cu & 0x3F));\n } else {\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xE0 | (cu >> 12));\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cu >> 6) & 0x3F));\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cu & 0x3F));\n }\n }\n return o;\n}"}
tool result
Edited /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c: replaced 1 occurrence(s)
232- unsigned cp;
240- cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo_cu - 0xDC00);
239+ unsigned cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo_cu - 0xDC00);
240+ // Surrogate pairs always decode to a supplementary code point
241+ // (>= 0x10000), which is always exactly 4 UTF-8 bytes: no need
242+ // to re-check the length thresholds.
243+ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));
244+ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));
245+ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
246+ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
247+ continue;
243- } else {
244- cp = cu;
246- // Emit UTF-8.
247- if (cp < 0x80) {
248- out[o++] = (uint8_t)cp;
249- } else if (cp < 0x800) {
250- out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cp >> 6));
251- out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
252- } else if (cp < 0x10000) {
253- out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xE0 | (cp >> 12));
254- out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
255- out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
251+ // A lone \uXXXX (not part of a surrogate pair) is always a BMP code
252+ // point outside the surrogate range, i.e. < 0x10000: only 3 length
253+ // classes are possible.
254+ if (cu < 0x80) {
255+ out[o++] = (uint8_t)cu;
256+ } else if (cu < 0x800) {
257+ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cu >> 6));
258+ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cu & 0x3F));
257- out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));
258- out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));
259- out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
260- out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
260+ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xE0 | (cu >> 12));
261+ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cu >> 6) & 0x3F));
262+ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cu & 0x3F));
Context after edit (lines 224-266):
224│ case 'u': break;
225│ default: return INVALID;
226│ }
227│ // \uXXXX
228│ if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID;
229│ unsigned cu;
230│ if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &cu) < 0) return INVALID;
231│ i += 6;
232│ if (cu >= 0xD800 && cu <= 0xDBFF) {
233│ if (i + 6 > in_len || in[i] != '\\' || in[i + 1] != 'u')
234│ return INVALID;
235│ unsigned lo_cu;
236│ if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &lo_cu) < 0) return INVALID;
237│ if (lo_cu < 0xDC00 || lo_cu > 0xDFFF) return INVALID;
238│ i += 6;
239│ unsigned cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo_cu - 0xDC00);
240│ // Surrogate pairs always decode to a supplementary code point
241│ // (>= 0x10000), which is always exactly 4 UTF-8 bytes: no need
242│ // to re-check the length thresholds.
243│ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));
244│ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));
245│ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
246│ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
247│ continue;
248│ } else if (cu >= 0xDC00 && cu <= 0xDFFF) {
249│ return INVALID;
250│ }
251│ // A lone \uXXXX (not part of a surrogate pair) is always a BMP code
252│ // point outside the surrogate range, i.e. < 0x10000: only 3 length
253│ // classes are possible.
254│ if (cu < 0x80) {
255│ out[o++] = (uint8_t)cu;
256│ } else if (cu < 0x800) {
257│ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cu >> 6));
258│ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cu & 0x3F));
259│ } else {
260│ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xE0 | (cu >> 12));
261│ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cu >> 6) & 0x3F));
262│ out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cu & 0x3F));
263│ }
264│ }
265│ return o;
266│ }
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
build 1.4s
verify 0.8s PASS
measure 1.1s 24,133,346 instructions (given: 51,488,656)
SCORE +1.0932 (2.134x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Good, improved. Let's try optimizing the escape-byte switch: since first two chars after `\` determine handling, maybe use a lookup table for simple escapes instead of switch.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && for s in 1 2 3; do ./grade --seed $s 2>&1 | tail -1; done"}
tool result
SCORE +1.0946 (2.136x)
SCORE +1.0707 (2.100x)
SCORE +1.1068 (2.154x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Let's build a simple-escape lookup table to replace the switch, reducing branch overhead.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && grep -n \"switch (e)\" submission/solve.c"}
tool result
215: switch (e) {
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: edit
{"file_path": "/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c", "old_string": "static inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {", "new_string": "// Decoded byte for each simple \\X escape, or -1 if X is not a valid simple\n// escape character. 'u' (which needs separate \\uXXXX handling) is also -1\n// here and is special-cased by the caller before consulting this table.\nstatic const int16_t SIMPLE_ESCAPE[256] = {\n [0 ... 255] = -1,\n ['\"'] = '\"',\n ['\\\\'] = '\\\\',\n ['/'] = '/',\n ['b'] = '\\b',\n ['f'] = '\\f',\n ['n'] = '\\n',\n ['r'] = '\\r',\n ['t'] = '\\t',\n};\n\nstatic inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {"}
tool result
Edited /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c: replaced 1 occurrence(s)
71+ // Decoded byte for each simple \X escape, or -1 if X is not a valid simple
72+ // escape character. 'u' (which needs separate \uXXXX handling) is also -1
73+ // here and is special-cased by the caller before consulting this table.
74+ static const int16_t SIMPLE_ESCAPE[256] = {
75+ [0 ... 255] = -1,
76+ ['"'] = '"',
77+ ['\\'] = '\\',
78+ ['/'] = '/',
79+ ['b'] = '\b',
80+ ['f'] = '\f',
81+ ['n'] = '\n',
82+ ['r'] = '\r',
83+ ['t'] = '\t',
84+ };
Context after edit (lines 68-89):
68│ }
69│ }
70│
71│ // Decoded byte for each simple \X escape, or -1 if X is not a valid simple
72│ // escape character. 'u' (which needs separate \uXXXX handling) is also -1
73│ // here and is special-cased by the caller before consulting this table.
74│ static const int16_t SIMPLE_ESCAPE[256] = {
75│ [0 ... 255] = -1,
76│ ['"'] = '"',
77│ ['\\'] = '\\',
78│ ['/'] = '/',
79│ ['b'] = '\b',
80│ ['f'] = '\f',
81│ ['n'] = '\n',
82│ ['r'] = '\r',
83│ ['t'] = '\t',
84│ };
85│
86│ static inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {
87│ uint16_t w0, w1;
88│ memcpy(&w0, p, 2);
89│ memcpy(&w1, p + 2, 2);
tool call: edit
{"file_path": "/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c", "old_string": " uint8_t e = in[i + 1];\n switch (e) {\n case '\"': out[o++] = '\"'; i += 2; continue;\n case '\\\\': out[o++] = '\\\\'; i += 2; continue;\n case '/': out[o++] = '/'; i += 2; continue;\n case 'b': out[o++] = '\\b'; i += 2; continue;\n case 'f': out[o++] = '\\f'; i += 2; continue;\n case 'n': out[o++] = '\\n'; i += 2; continue;\n case 'r': out[o++] = '\\r'; i += 2; continue;\n case 't': out[o++] = '\\t'; i += 2; continue;\n case 'u': break;\n default: return INVALID;\n }", "new_string": " uint8_t e = in[i + 1];\n if (e != 'u') {\n int decoded = SIMPLE_ESCAPE[e];\n if (decoded < 0) return INVALID;\n out[o++] = (uint8_t)decoded;\n i += 2;\n continue;\n }"}
tool result
Edited /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c: replaced 1 occurrence(s)
230- switch (e) {
231- case '"': out[o++] = '"'; i += 2; continue;
232- case '\\': out[o++] = '\\'; i += 2; continue;
233- case '/': out[o++] = '/'; i += 2; continue;
234- case 'b': out[o++] = '\b'; i += 2; continue;
235- case 'f': out[o++] = '\f'; i += 2; continue;
236- case 'n': out[o++] = '\n'; i += 2; continue;
237- case 'r': out[o++] = '\r'; i += 2; continue;
238- case 't': out[o++] = '\t'; i += 2; continue;
239- case 'u': break;
240- default: return INVALID;
230+ if (e != 'u') {
231+ int decoded = SIMPLE_ESCAPE[e];
232+ if (decoded < 0) return INVALID;
233+ out[o++] = (uint8_t)decoded;
234+ i += 2;
235+ continue;
Context after edit (lines 226-239):
226│
227│ // Backslash escape.
228│ if (i + 1 >= in_len) return INVALID;
229│ uint8_t e = in[i + 1];
230│ if (e != 'u') {
231│ int decoded = SIMPLE_ESCAPE[e];
232│ if (decoded < 0) return INVALID;
233│ out[o++] = (uint8_t)decoded;
234│ i += 2;
235│ continue;
236│ }
237│ // \uXXXX
238│ if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID;
239│ unsigned cu;
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
build 1.4s
verify 0.8s PASS
measure 1.2s 23,670,841 instructions (given: 53,915,709)
SCORE +1.1876 (2.278x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Nice improvement. Let's confirm across seeds.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && for s in 1 2 3 4; do ./grade --seed $s 2>&1 | tail -1; done"}
tool result
SCORE +1.2059 (2.307x)
SCORE +1.1825 (2.270x)
SCORE +1.2179 (2.326x)
SCORE +1.1979 (2.294x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Great, ~2.3x consistently. Let's profile once more.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade --seed 42 --quiet 2>&1\ncallgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null > /tmp/ann3.txt\nsed -n '/User-annotated source/,/following files/p' /tmp/ann3.txt | head -150"}
tool result
SCORE +1.2022 (2.301x)
-- User-annotated source: submission/solve.c
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ir
-- line 82 ----------------------------------------
. ['r'] = '\r',
. ['t'] = '\t',
. };
.
. static inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {
. uint16_t w0, w1;
. memcpy(&w0, p, 2);
. memcpy(&w1, p + 2, 2);
117,756 ( 2.76%) int hi = HEXPAIR[w0];
78,504 ( 1.84%) int lo = HEXPAIR[w1];
117,756 ( 2.76%) if ((hi | lo) < 0) return -1;
78,504 ( 1.84%) *out = (unsigned)((hi << 8) | lo);
. return 0;
. }
.
. // Scans forward from `i` copying plain (non-special) bytes to `out` until
. // hitting a special byte (< 0x20, '"', or '\\') or the input end. Returns
. // the new i; the caller adds (new_i - old_i) to its own output cursor.
. typedef size_t (*scan_copy_fn)(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
.
. static size_t scan_copy_scalar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
4,303 ( 0.10%) while (i < in_len) {
1,514 ( 0.04%) uint8_t c = in[i];
9,084 ( 0.21%) if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;
2,314 ( 0.05%) out[i - start] = c;
1,400 ( 0.03%) i++;
. }
. return i;
. }
.
. static inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {
. uint64_t v;
1,317 ( 0.03%) memcpy(&v, p, 8);
. return v;
. }
. static inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {
12,984 ( 0.30%) return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
. }
. static inline uint64_t hasvalue(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
7,716 ( 0.18%) return haszero(x ^ (0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n));
. }
. static inline uint64_t hasless(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
5,175 ( 0.12%) return (x - 0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
. }
.
9,792 ( 0.23%) static size_t scan_copy_swar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
10,944 ( 0.26%) while (i + 8 <= in_len) {
. uint64_t w = load64(in + i);
3,765 ( 0.09%) memcpy(out + (i - start), &w, 8);
3,858 ( 0.09%) uint64_t special = hasless(w, 0x20) | hasvalue(w, 0x22) | hasvalue(w, 0x5C);
2,634 ( 0.06%) if (special) {
1,446 ( 0.03%) int bit = __builtin_ctzll(special);
1,446 ( 0.03%) return i + (size_t)(bit >> 3);
. }
. i += 8;
. }
. return scan_copy_scalar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
9,792 ( 0.23%) }
.
. #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
. #include <immintrin.h>
.
. __attribute__((target("avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl")))
. static size_t scan_copy_avx512(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
. __m512i lo = _mm512_set1_epi8(0x20);
-- line 149 ----------------------------------------
-- line 170 ----------------------------------------
.
. __attribute__((target("avx2")))
. static size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
. size_t start = i;
. __m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);
. __m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);
. __m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);
. __m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));
298,613 ( 6.99%) while (i + 32 <= in_len) {
. __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));
. _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);
. __m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);
. __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20
. __m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);
. __m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);
. __m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);
. unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);
187,005 ( 4.38%) if (mask) {
129,459 ( 3.03%) return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);
. }
. i += 32;
. }
3,672 ( 0.09%) return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
89,484 ( 2.09%) => submission/solve.c:scan_copy_swar (1,224x)
43,153 ( 1.01%) }
. #endif
.
. static scan_copy_fn g_scan_copy = scan_copy_swar;
.
. __attribute__((constructor))
. static void select_scan_impl(void) {
. #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
. __builtin_cpu_init();
-- line 201 ----------------------------------------
-- line 207 ----------------------------------------
. if (__builtin_cpu_supports("avx2")) {
. g_scan_copy = scan_copy_avx2;
. return;
. }
. #endif
. g_scan_copy = scan_copy_swar;
. }
.
6,000 ( 0.14%) size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
1,200 ( 0.03%) size_t i = 0, o = 0;
89,180 ( 2.09%) while (i < in_len) {
. size_t start = i;
221,885 ( 5.19%) i = g_scan_copy(in, i, in_len, out + o);
1,844,925 (43.18%) => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/16/include/avx2intrin.h:scan_copy_avx2 (44,377x)
133,131 ( 3.12%) o += i - start;
.
88,754 ( 2.08%) if (i >= in_len) break;
.
. uint8_t c = in[i];
87,980 ( 2.06%) if (c != 0x5C) return INVALID; // control byte or bare '"'
.
. // Backslash escape.
131,970 ( 3.09%) if (i + 1 >= in_len) return INVALID;
43,990 ( 1.03%) uint8_t e = in[i + 1];
87,980 ( 2.06%) if (e != 'u') {
12,308 ( 0.29%) int decoded = SIMPLE_ESCAPE[e];
23,416 ( 0.55%) if (decoded < 0) return INVALID;
74,040 ( 1.73%) out[o++] = (uint8_t)decoded;
11,708 ( 0.27%) i += 2;
. continue;
. }
. // \uXXXX
96,846 ( 2.27%) if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID;
. unsigned cu;
32,282 ( 0.76%) if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &cu) < 0) return INVALID;
. i += 6;
96,846 ( 2.27%) if (cu >= 0xD800 && cu <= 0xDBFF) {
48,790 ( 1.14%) if (i + 6 > in_len || in[i] != '\\' || in[i + 1] != 'u')
. return INVALID;
. unsigned lo_cu;
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Now the AVX2 scan is dominant (43% of the func's own instructions is that call). Now the plain-run scan itself dominates cost, which is expected given corpus regime weights (65% mostly plain). Let's check if AVX-512 path is actually taken in the real grading (not just under valgrind).
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -m1 \"model name\""}
tool result
model name : unknown
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && python3 -c \"\nimport struct\nwith open('.build/corpus_42.bin','rb') as f:\n data=f.read()\noff=0\nrunlens=[]\nwhile off+4<=len(data):\n ln=struct.unpack('<I',data[off:off+4])[0]\n off+=4\n rec=data[off:off+ln]\n off+=ln\n i=0\n cur=0\n while i<len(rec):\n c=rec[i]\n if c<0x20 or c==0x22 or c==0x5c:\n runlens.append(cur)\n cur=0\n if c==0x5c:\n i+=2\n continue\n else:\n cur+=1\n i+=1\n runlens.append(cur)\nrunlens.sort()\nimport statistics\nprint('n',len(runlens),'mean',statistics.mean(runlens),'median',statistics.median(runlens))\nprint('max',max(runlens))\nprint('sum', sum(runlens))\n# weighted average per byte processed\ntot=sum(runlens)\nbig=sum(r for r in runlens if r>32)\nprint('fraction of bytes in runs > 32:', big/tot)\n\"\n"}
tool result
n 51560 mean 18.71022110162917 median 4.0
max 4116
sum 964699
fraction of bytes in runs > 32: 0.648686274164273
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner --disassemble=json_unescape -M intel 2>/dev/null | sed -n '55,75p'"}
tool result
2dd6: 48 89 c8 mov rax,rcx
2dd9: 5b pop rbx
2dda: 5d pop rbp
2ddb: 41 5c pop r12
2ddd: 41 5d pop r13
2ddf: 41 5e pop r14
2de1: 41 5f pop r15
2de3: c3 ret
2de4: 0f 1f 40 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax+0x0]
2de8: 4c 8d 68 06 lea r13,[rax+0x6]
2dec: 4c 39 eb cmp rbx,r13
2def: 0f 82 eb 00 00 00 jb 2ee0 <json_unescape+0x1a0>
2df5: 49 8d 74 04 02 lea rsi,[r12+rax*1+0x2]
2dfa: 48 8d 3d 9f 22 00 00 lea rdi,[rip+0x229f] # 50a0 <HEXPAIR>
2e01: 0f b7 16 movzx edx,WORD PTR [rsi]
2e04: 0f b7 76 02 movzx esi,WORD PTR [rsi+0x2]
2e08: 0f bf 14 57 movsx edx,WORD PTR [rdi+rdx*2]
2e0c: 0f bf 34 77 movsx esi,WORD PTR [rdi+rsi*2]
2e10: 41 89 d0 mov r8d,edx
2e13: 66 41 09 f0 or r8w,si
2e17: 0f 88 c3 00 00 00 js 2ee0 <json_unescape+0x1a0>
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind /tmp/force512 2>&1 | tail -5\necho ---\nvalgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/force512 2>&1 | tail -8"}
tool result
==2296==
==2296== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==2296==
==2296== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==2296== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
---
==2303== Illegal opcode at address 0x40011E0
==2303== at 0x40011E0: scan.constprop.0 (in /tmp/force512)
==2303== by 0x40010A9: main (in /tmp/force512)
==2303==
==2303== Events : Ir
==2303== Collected : 124011
==2303==
==2303== I refs: 124,011
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind --tool=memcheck /tmp/force512 2>&1 | tail -10\necho \"====\"\nvalgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/force512 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
==2320== by 0x40010A9: main (in /tmp/force512)
==2320==
==2320== HEAP SUMMARY:
==2320== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==2320== total heap usage: 0 allocs, 0 frees, 0 bytes allocated
==2320==
==2320== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==2320==
==2320== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==2320== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
====
==2325==
==2325== Process terminating with default action of signal 4 (SIGILL): dumping core
==2325== Illegal opcode at address 0x40011E0
==2325== at 0x40011E0: scan.constprop.0 (in /tmp/force512)
==2325== by 0x40010A9: main (in /tmp/force512)
==2325==
==2325== Events : Ir
==2325== Collected : 124011
==2325==
==2325== I refs: 124,011
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind --tool=memcheck /tmp/force512 2>&1 | head -20\necho \"RC=$?\""}
tool result
==2342== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==2342== Copyright (C) 2002-2024, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==2342== Using Valgrind-3.25.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==2342== Command: /tmp/force512
==2342==
vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0x62 0xF1 0xFE 0x48 0x6F 0x1F 0xB8 0x20 0x20 0x20
vex amd64->IR: REX=0 REX.W=0 REX.R=0 REX.X=0 REX.B=0
vex amd64->IR: VEX=0 VEX.L=0 VEX.nVVVV=0x0 ESC=NONE
vex amd64->IR: PFX.66=0 PFX.F2=0 PFX.F3=0
==2342== valgrind: Unrecognised instruction at address 0x40011e0.
==2342== at 0x40011E0: scan.constprop.0 (in /tmp/force512)
==2342== by 0x40010A9: main (in /tmp/force512)
==2342== Your program just tried to execute an instruction that Valgrind
==2342== did not recognise. There are two possible reasons for this.
==2342== 1. Your program has a bug and erroneously jumped to a non-code
==2342== location. If you are running Memcheck and you just saw a
==2342== warning about a bad jump, it's probably your program's fault.
==2342== 2. The instruction is legitimate but Valgrind doesn't handle it,
==2342== i.e. it's Valgrind's fault. If you think this is the case or
==2342== you are not sure, please let us know and we'll try to fix it.
RC=0
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/checkwhich 2>&1 | grep chosen"}
tool result
f=0 bw=0 vl=0 avx2=1024 chosen=avx2
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/pcmpistri_test.c << 'EOF'\n#include <smmintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include <string.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"sse4.2\")))\nint test(const unsigned char *buf) {\n __m128i ranges = _mm_setr_epi8(\n 0x00, 0x1F, // control range\n 0x22, 0x22, // quote\n 0x5C, 0x5C, // backslash\n 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\n );\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n __m128i mask = _mm_cmpistrm(ranges, v, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_BIT_MASK);\n int m = _mm_extract_epi16(mask, 0) & 0xFFFF;\n return m;\n}\nint main(){\n unsigned char buf[16];\n memset(buf,'a',16);\n buf[10]=1;\n printf(\"%d\\n\", test(buf));\n memset(buf,'a',16);\n buf[5]='\"';\n printf(\"%d\\n\", test(buf));\n memset(buf,'a',16);\n buf[3]='\\\\';\n printf(\"%d\\n\", test(buf));\n memset(buf,'a',16);\n printf(\"%d\\n\", test(buf));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/pcmpistri_test.c -o /tmp/pcmpistri_test && /tmp/pcmpistri_test"}
tool result
0
0
0
0
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && python3 -c \"\nimport struct, math\nwith open('.build/corpus_42.bin','rb') as f:\n data=f.read()\noff=0\nrunlens=[]\nwhile off+4<=len(data):\n ln=struct.unpack('<I',data[off:off+4])[0]\n off+=4\n rec=data[off:off+ln]\n off+=ln\n i=0\n cur=0\n while i<len(rec):\n c=rec[i]\n if c<0x20 or c==0x22 or c==0x5c:\n runlens.append(cur)\n cur=0\n if c==0x5c:\n i+=2\n continue\n else:\n cur+=1\n i+=1\n runlens.append(cur)\n\ntotal_iters = sum(max(1, math.ceil(r/32)) if r>0 else 0 for r in runlens)\nprint('runs',len(runlens),'nonzero runs', sum(1 for r in runlens if r>0), 'total_iters', total_iters)\n\"\n"}
tool result
runs 51560 nonzero runs 47963 total_iters 67179
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner --disassemble=scan_copy_avx512 -M intel 2>/dev/null"}
tool result
.build/runner: file format elf64-x86-64
Disassembly of section .init:
Disassembly of section .plt:
Disassembly of section .text:
0000000000002ca0 <scan_copy_avx512>:
2ca0: b8 20 20 20 20 mov eax,0x20202020
2ca5: 49 89 f8 mov r8,rdi
2ca8: 48 89 d7 mov rdi,rdx
2cab: 62 f2 7d 48 7c d8 vpbroadcastd zmm3,eax
2cb1: b8 22 22 22 22 mov eax,0x22222222
2cb6: 62 f2 7d 48 7c d0 vpbroadcastd zmm2,eax
2cbc: b8 5c 5c 5c 5c mov eax,0x5c5c5c5c
2cc1: 62 f2 7d 48 7c c8 vpbroadcastd zmm1,eax
2cc7: eb 46 jmp 2d0f <scan_copy_avx512+0x6f>
2cc9: 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax+0x0]
2cd0: 62 d1 fe 48 6f 44 30 vmovdqu64 zmm0,ZMMWORD PTR [r8+rsi*1-0x40]
2cd7: ff
2cd8: 48 83 c1 40 add rcx,0x40
2cdc: 62 f3 7d 48 3e c3 01 vpcmpltub k0,zmm0,zmm3
2ce3: 62 f3 7d 48 3f ca 00 vpcmpeqb k1,zmm0,zmm2
2cea: 62 f1 fe 48 7f 41 ff vmovdqu64 ZMMWORD PTR [rcx-0x40],zmm0
2cf1: 62 f3 7d 48 3f d1 00 vpcmpeqb k2,zmm0,zmm1
2cf8: c4 e1 fb 93 c1 kmovq rax,k1
2cfd: c4 61 fb 93 d0 kmovq r10,k0
2d02: 4c 09 d0 or rax,r10
2d05: c4 e1 fb 93 d2 kmovq rdx,k2
2d0a: 48 09 d0 or rax,rdx
2d0d: 75 21 jne 2d30 <scan_copy_avx512+0x90>
2d0f: 49 89 f1 mov r9,rsi
2d12: 48 83 c6 40 add rsi,0x40
2d16: 48 39 f7 cmp rdi,rsi
2d19: 73 b5 jae 2cd0 <scan_copy_avx512+0x30>
2d1b: 48 89 fa mov rdx,rdi
2d1e: 4c 89 ce mov rsi,r9
2d21: 4c 89 c7 mov rdi,r8
2d24: c5 f8 77 vzeroupper
2d27: e9 94 fd ff ff jmp 2ac0 <scan_copy_swar>
2d2c: 0f 1f 40 00 nop DWORD PTR [rax+0x0]
2d30: f3 48 0f bc c0 tzcnt rax,rax
2d35: 89 c0 mov eax,eax
2d37: 4c 01 c8 add rax,r9
2d3a: c5 f8 77 vzeroupper
2d3d: c3 ret
Disassembly of section .fini:
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/pcmp2.c << 'EOF'\n#include <smmintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include <string.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"sse4.2\")))\nstatic int find_special(const unsigned char *buf, int len) {\n __m128i ranges = _mm_setr_epi8(\n 0x00, 0x1F,\n 0x22, 0x22,\n 0x5C, 0x5C,\n 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\n );\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n int idx = _mm_cmpistri(ranges, v, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n return idx;\n}\nint main(){\n unsigned char buf[16];\n memset(buf,'a',16);\n printf(\"all plain: %d\\n\", find_special(buf,16));\n buf[10]=1;\n printf(\"control at 10: %d\\n\", find_special(buf,16));\n memset(buf,'a',16);\n buf[5]='\"';\n printf(\"quote at 5: %d\\n\", find_special(buf,16));\n memset(buf,'a',16);\n buf[3]='\\\\';\n printf(\"backslash at 3: %d\\n\", find_special(buf,16));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/pcmp2.c -o /tmp/pcmp2 && /tmp/pcmp2\necho \"--- under valgrind ---\"\nvalgrind /tmp/pcmp2 2>&1 | tail -20"}
tool result
all plain: 16
control at 10: 16
quote at 5: 16
backslash at 3: 16
--- under valgrind ---
==2428== warning about a bad jump, it's probably your program's fault.
==2428== 2. The instruction is legitimate but Valgrind doesn't handle it,
==2428== i.e. it's Valgrind's fault. If you think this is the case or
==2428== you are not sure, please let us know and we'll try to fix it.
==2428== Either way, Valgrind will now raise a SIGILL signal which will
==2428== probably kill your program.
==2428==
==2428== Process terminating with default action of signal 4 (SIGILL): dumping core
==2428== Illegal opcode at address 0x4001228
==2428== at 0x4001228: find_special.constprop.0 (in /tmp/pcmp2)
==2428== by 0x400107B: main (in /tmp/pcmp2)
==2428==
==2428== HEAP SUMMARY:
==2428== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==2428== total heap usage: 0 allocs, 0 frees, 0 bytes allocated
==2428==
==2428== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==2428==
==2428== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==2428== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat > /tmp/checkxgetbv.c << 'EOF'\n#include <stdio.h>\nint main(){\n unsigned int eax, ebx, ecx, edx;\n __asm__(\"cpuid\" : \"=a\"(eax),\"=b\"(ebx),\"=c\"(ecx),\"=d\"(edx) : \"a\"(7), \"c\"(0));\n printf(\"ebx=%x\\n\", ebx);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 /tmp/checkxgetbv.c -o /tmp/checkxgetbv && /tmp/checkxgetbv\nvalgrind /tmp/checkxgetbv 2>&1 | grep ebx"}
tool result
ebx=f1bf07a9
ebx=427aa
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade --full 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
build 1.4s
verify 0.8s PASS (FULL gate)
measure 1.2s 23,614,843 instructions (given: 53,227,293)
SCORE +1.1725 (2.254x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Full gate passes too. Let's now try to reduce cost further by processing 2 vectors at once (loop unrolling) to amortize the loop-branch overhead, and check the swar path since valgrind reports avx2 (not avx512) as chosen under callgrind's actual emulated CPUID.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat submission/solve.c | sed -n '170,195p'"}
tool result
__attribute__((target("avx2")))
static size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
size_t start = i;
__m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);
__m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);
__m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);
__m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));
while (i + 32 <= in_len) {
__m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));
_mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);
__m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);
__m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20
__m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);
__m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);
__m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);
unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);
if (mask) {
return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);
}
i += 32;
}
return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
}
#endif
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Let's try 2x-unrolling the AVX2 scan (two 32B vectors per iteration, i.e. 64B) to amortize the loop-branch overhead, since AVX2 (not AVX-512) is what callgrind's cpuid emulation exposes.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat submission/solve.c | grep -n \"scan_copy_avx2\\|scan_copy_avx512\" | head"}
tool result
147:static size_t scan_copy_avx512(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
172:static size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
204: g_scan_copy = scan_copy_avx512;
208: g_scan_copy = scan_copy_avx2;
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: edit
{"file_path": "/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c", "new_string": "__attribute__((target(\"avx2\")))\nstatic size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n size_t start = i;\n __m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);\n __m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);\n __m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);\n __m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));\n // 2x-unrolled (64 bytes/iteration): amortizes the loop-branch overhead\n // over two vector lanes for the common case of runs long enough to\n // benefit, while the single-vector loop below still handles the tail.\n while (i + 64 <= in_len) {\n __m256i v0 = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));\n __m256i v1 = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i + 32));\n _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v0);\n _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start) + 32), v1);\n __m256i vb0 = _mm256_sub_epi8(v0, bias);\n __m256i vb1 = _mm256_sub_epi8(v1, bias);\n __m256i sp0 = _mm256_or_si256(\n _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb0), _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v0, qt)),\n _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v0, bs));\n __m256i sp1 = _mm256_or_si256(\n _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb1), _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v1, qt)),\n _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v1, bs));\n unsigned mask0 = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(sp0);\n unsigned mask1 = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(sp1);\n if (mask0) {\n return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask0);\n }\n if (mask1) {\n return i + 32 + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask1);\n }\n i += 64;\n }\n while (i + 32 <= in_len) {\n __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));\n _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);\n __m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);\n __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20\n __m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);\n __m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);\n __m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);\n unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);\n if (mask) {\n return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);\n }\n i += 32;\n }\n return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));\n}\n#endif", "old_string": "__attribute__((target(\"avx2\")))\nstatic size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n size_t start = i;\n __m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);\n __m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);\n __m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);\n __m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));\n while (i + 32 <= in_len) {\n __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));\n _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);\n __m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);\n __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20\n __m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);\n __m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);\n __m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);\n unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);\n if (mask) {\n return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);\n }\n i += 32;\n }\n return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));\n}\n#endif"}
tool result
Edited /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c: replaced 1 occurrence(s)
178+ // 2x-unrolled (64 bytes/iteration): amortizes the loop-branch overhead
179+ // over two vector lanes for the common case of runs long enough to
180+ // benefit, while the single-vector loop below still handles the tail.
181+ while (i + 64 <= in_len) {
182+ __m256i v0 = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));
183+ __m256i v1 = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i + 32));
184+ _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v0);
185+ _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start) + 32), v1);
186+ __m256i vb0 = _mm256_sub_epi8(v0, bias);
187+ __m256i vb1 = _mm256_sub_epi8(v1, bias);
188+ __m256i sp0 = _mm256_or_si256(
189+ _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb0), _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v0, qt)),
190+ _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v0, bs));
191+ __m256i sp1 = _mm256_or_si256(
192+ _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb1), _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v1, qt)),
193+ _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v1, bs));
194+ unsigned mask0 = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(sp0);
195+ unsigned mask1 = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(sp1);
196+ if (mask0) {
197+ return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask0);
198+ }
199+ if (mask1) {
200+ return i + 32 + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask1);
201+ }
202+ i += 64;
203+ }
Context after edit (lines 168-223):
168│ return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
169│ }
170│
171│ __attribute__((target("avx2")))
172│ static size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
173│ size_t start = i;
174│ __m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);
175│ __m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);
176│ __m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);
177│ __m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));
178│ // 2x-unrolled (64 bytes/iteration): amortizes the loop-branch overhead
179│ // over two vector lanes for the common case of runs long enough to
180│ // benefit, while the single-vector loop below still handles the tail.
181│ while (i + 64 <= in_len) {
182│ __m256i v0 = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));
183│ __m256i v1 = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i + 32));
184│ _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v0);
185│ _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start) + 32), v1);
186│ __m256i vb0 = _mm256_sub_epi8(v0, bias);
187│ __m256i vb1 = _mm256_sub_epi8(v1, bias);
188│ __m256i sp0 = _mm256_or_si256(
189│ _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb0), _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v0, qt)),
190│ _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v0, bs));
191│ __m256i sp1 = _mm256_or_si256(
192│ _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb1), _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v1, qt)),
193│ _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v1, bs));
194│ unsigned mask0 = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(sp0);
195│ unsigned mask1 = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(sp1);
196│ if (mask0) {
197│ return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask0);
198│ }
199│ if (mask1) {
200│ return i + 32 + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask1);
201│ }
202│ i += 64;
203│ }
204│ while (i + 32 <= in_len) {
205│ __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));
206│ _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);
207│ __m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);
208│ __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20
209│ __m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);
210│ __m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);
211│ __m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);
212│ unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);
213│ if (mask) {
214│ return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);
215│ }
216│ i += 32;
217│ }
218│ return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
219│ }
220│ #endif
221│
222│ static scan_copy_fn g_scan_copy = scan_copy_swar;
223│
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
build 1.5s
verify 0.8s PASS
measure 1.2s 25,600,171 instructions (given: 53,284,164)
SCORE +1.0576 (2.081x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
That's worse (2.08 vs 2.27). Revert unrolling.
tool call: edit
{"file_path": "/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c", "new_string": "__attribute__((target(\"avx2\")))\nstatic size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n size_t start = i;\n __m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);\n __m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);\n __m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);\n __m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));\n while (i + 32 <= in_len) {\n __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));\n _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);\n __m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);\n __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20\n __m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);\n __m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);\n __m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);\n unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);\n if (mask) {\n return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);\n }\n i += 32;\n }\n return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));\n}\n#endif", "old_string": "__attribute__((target(\"avx2\")))\nstatic size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n size_t start = i;\n __m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);\n __m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);\n __m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);\n __m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));\n // 2x-unrolled (64 bytes/iteration): amortizes the loop-branch overhead\n // over two vector lanes for the common case of runs long enough to\n // benefit, while the single-vector loop below still handles the tail.\n while (i + 64 <= in_len) {\n __m256i v0 = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));\n __m256i v1 = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i + 32));\n _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v0);\n _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start) + 32), v1);\n __m256i vb0 = _mm256_sub_epi8(v0, bias);\n __m256i vb1 = _mm256_sub_epi8(v1, bias);\n __m256i sp0 = _mm256_or_si256(\n _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb0), _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v0, qt)),\n _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v0, bs));\n __m256i sp1 = _mm256_or_si256(\n _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb1), _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v1, qt)),\n _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v1, bs));\n unsigned mask0 = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(sp0);\n unsigned mask1 = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(sp1);\n if (mask0) {\n return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask0);\n }\n if (mask1) {\n return i + 32 + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask1);\n }\n i += 64;\n }\n while (i + 32 <= in_len) {\n __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));\n _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);\n __m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);\n __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20\n __m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);\n __m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);\n __m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);\n unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);\n if (mask) {\n return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);\n }\n i += 32;\n }\n return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));\n}\n#endif"}
tool result
Edited /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c: replaced 1 occurrence(s)
178- // 2x-unrolled (64 bytes/iteration): amortizes the loop-branch overhead
179- // over two vector lanes for the common case of runs long enough to
180- // benefit, while the single-vector loop below still handles the tail.
181- while (i + 64 <= in_len) {
182- __m256i v0 = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));
183- __m256i v1 = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i + 32));
184- _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v0);
185- _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start) + 32), v1);
186- __m256i vb0 = _mm256_sub_epi8(v0, bias);
187- __m256i vb1 = _mm256_sub_epi8(v1, bias);
188- __m256i sp0 = _mm256_or_si256(
189- _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb0), _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v0, qt)),
190- _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v0, bs));
191- __m256i sp1 = _mm256_or_si256(
192- _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb1), _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v1, qt)),
193- _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v1, bs));
194- unsigned mask0 = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(sp0);
195- unsigned mask1 = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(sp1);
196- if (mask0) {
197- return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask0);
198- }
199- if (mask1) {
200- return i + 32 + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask1);
201- }
202- i += 64;
203- }
Context after edit (lines 168-197):
168│ return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
169│ }
170│
171│ __attribute__((target("avx2")))
172│ static size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
173│ size_t start = i;
174│ __m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);
175│ __m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);
176│ __m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);
177│ __m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));
178│ while (i + 32 <= in_len) {
179│ __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));
180│ _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);
181│ __m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);
182│ __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20
183│ __m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);
184│ __m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);
185│ __m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);
186│ unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);
187│ if (mask) {
188│ return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);
189│ }
190│ i += 32;
191│ }
192│ return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
193│ }
194│ #endif
195│
196│ static scan_copy_fn g_scan_copy = scan_copy_swar;
197│
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
build 1.5s
verify 0.8s PASS
measure 1.1s 21,875,643 instructions (given: 51,205,407)
SCORE +1.2270 (2.341x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Good, back to good state and even a bit better (natural corpus variance). Let's confirm across seeds.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && for s in 1 2 3 4 5; do ./grade --seed $s 2>&1 | tail -1; done"}
tool result
SCORE +1.2059 (2.307x)
SCORE +1.1825 (2.270x)
SCORE +1.2179 (2.326x)
SCORE +1.1979 (2.294x)
SCORE +1.2095 (2.313x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Consistent ~1.2 (2.3x). Now let's try a different approach: reduce the outer loop overhead by inlining the whole thing differently, or try using PCMPESTRI-based scanning (SSE4.2) which might be cheaper per byte due to fewer instructions per vector.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/pcmpistri3.c << 'EOF'\n#include <smmintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include <string.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"sse4.2\")))\nstatic int find_special(const unsigned char *buf) {\n __m128i ranges = _mm_setr_epi8(\n 0x00, 0x1F,\n 0x22, 0x22,\n 0x5C, 0x5C,\n 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\n );\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n return _mm_cmpistri(ranges, v, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n}\nint main(){\n unsigned char buf[16];\n memset(buf,'a',16);\n printf(\"all plain: %d\\n\", find_special(buf));\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 -S -o /tmp/pcmpistri3.s /tmp/pcmpistri3.c\ncat /tmp/pcmpistri3.s | grep -A20 \"find_special:\""}
tool result
find_special:
.LFB649:
.cfi_startproc
movdqa .LC0(%rip), %xmm0
pcmpistri $4, (%rdi), %xmm0
movl %ecx, %eax
ret
.cfi_endproc
.LFE649:
.size find_special, .-find_special
.section .rodata.str1.1,"aMS",@progbits,1
.LC2:
.string "all plain: %d\n"
.section .text.startup,"ax",@progbits
.p2align 4
.globl main
.type main, @function
main:
.LFB650:
.cfi_startproc
subq $40, %rsp
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/pcmpistri3 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
valgrind: /tmp/pcmpistri3: No such file or directory
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
This is instruction-count-based scoring (not cycle-accurate), so complex single instructions like PCMPISTRI collapse many logical steps into one retired instruction. Let's test this approach for the scan.
tool call: bash
{"command": "gcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/pcmpistri3.c -o /tmp/pcmpistri3 && /tmp/pcmpistri3\nvalgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/pcmpistri3 2>&1 | tail -8"}
tool result
all plain: 16
==2802== Illegal opcode at address 0x40011B8
==2802== at 0x40011B8: find_special (in /tmp/pcmpistri3)
==2802== by 0x400107B: main (in /tmp/pcmpistri3)
==2802==
==2802== Events : Ir
==2802== Collected : 124003
==2802==
==2802== I refs: 124,003
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && objdump -d .build/runner --disassemble=scan_copy_swar -M intel 2>/dev/null"}
tool result
.build/runner: file format elf64-x86-64
Disassembly of section .init:
Disassembly of section .plt:
Disassembly of section .text:
0000000000002ac0 <scan_copy_swar>:
2ac0: 49 b9 ff fe fe fe fe movabs r9,0xfefefefefefefeff
2ac7: fe fe fe
2aca: 41 57 push r15
2acc: 49 89 cf mov r15,rcx
2acf: 49 89 d3 mov r11,rdx
2ad2: 49 b8 80 80 80 80 80 movabs r8,0x8080808080808080
2ad9: 80 80 80
2adc: 41 56 push r14
2ade: 49 29 f7 sub r15,rsi
2ae1: 49 be 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c movabs r14,0x5c5c5c5c5c5c5c5c
2ae8: 5c 5c 5c
2aeb: 41 55 push r13
2aed: 49 bd a3 a3 a3 a3 a3 movabs r13,0xa3a3a3a3a3a3a3a3
2af4: a3 a3 a3
2af7: 41 54 push r12
2af9: 49 bc 22 22 22 22 22 movabs r12,0x2222222222222222
2b00: 22 22 22
2b03: 55 push rbp
2b04: 48 bd e0 df df df df movabs rbp,0xdfdfdfdfdfdfdfe0
2b0b: df df df
2b0e: 53 push rbx
2b0f: 48 89 fb mov rbx,rdi
2b12: 48 89 74 24 f0 mov QWORD PTR [rsp-0x10],rsi
2b17: 48 89 4c 24 f8 mov QWORD PTR [rsp-0x8],rcx
2b1c: eb 4c jmp 2b6a <scan_copy_swar+0xaa>
2b1e: 66 90 xchg ax,ax
2b20: 49 ba dd dd dd dd dd movabs r10,0xdddddddddddddddd
2b27: dd dd dd
2b2a: 48 8b 4c 33 f8 mov rcx,QWORD PTR [rbx+rsi*1-0x8]
2b2f: 48 89 c8 mov rax,rcx
2b32: 48 89 ca mov rdx,rcx
2b35: 49 31 ca xor r10,rcx
2b38: 49 89 4c 37 f8 mov QWORD PTR [r15+rsi*1-0x8],rcx
2b3d: 4c 31 f0 xor rax,r14
2b40: 4c 31 ea xor rdx,r13
2b43: 4c 01 c8 add rax,r9
2b46: 48 21 d0 and rax,rdx
2b49: 48 89 ca mov rdx,rcx
2b4c: 4c 31 e2 xor rdx,r12
2b4f: 4c 01 ca add rdx,r9
2b52: 4c 21 d2 and rdx,r10
2b55: 48 09 c2 or rdx,rax
2b58: 48 8d 04 29 lea rax,[rcx+rbp*1]
2b5c: 48 f7 d1 not rcx
2b5f: 48 21 c8 and rax,rcx
2b62: 48 09 c2 or rdx,rax
2b65: 4c 21 c2 and rdx,r8
2b68: 75 56 jne 2bc0 <scan_copy_swar+0x100>
2b6a: 48 89 f7 mov rdi,rsi
2b6d: 48 8d 76 08 lea rsi,[rsi+0x8]
2b71: 49 39 f3 cmp r11,rsi
2b74: 73 aa jae 2b20 <scan_copy_swar+0x60>
2b76: 48 8b 54 24 f8 mov rdx,QWORD PTR [rsp-0x8]
2b7b: 4c 39 df cmp rdi,r11
2b7e: 73 2c jae 2bac <scan_copy_swar+0xec>
2b80: 48 2b 54 24 f0 sub rdx,QWORD PTR [rsp-0x10]
2b85: eb 15 jmp 2b9c <scan_copy_swar+0xdc>
2b87: 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2b8e: 00 00
2b90: 88 04 3a mov BYTE PTR [rdx+rdi*1],al
2b93: 48 83 c7 01 add rdi,0x1
2b97: 49 39 fb cmp r11,rdi
2b9a: 74 10 je 2bac <scan_copy_swar+0xec>
2b9c: 0f b6 04 3b movzx eax,BYTE PTR [rbx+rdi*1]
2ba0: 3c 1f cmp al,0x1f
2ba2: 76 08 jbe 2bac <scan_copy_swar+0xec>
2ba4: 3c 22 cmp al,0x22
2ba6: 74 04 je 2bac <scan_copy_swar+0xec>
2ba8: 3c 5c cmp al,0x5c
2baa: 75 e4 jne 2b90 <scan_copy_swar+0xd0>
2bac: 5b pop rbx
2bad: 48 89 f8 mov rax,rdi
2bb0: 5d pop rbp
2bb1: 41 5c pop r12
2bb3: 41 5d pop r13
2bb5: 41 5e pop r14
2bb7: 41 5f pop r15
2bb9: c3 ret
2bba: 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 nop WORD PTR [rax+rax*1+0x0]
2bc0: 31 c0 xor eax,eax
2bc2: 5b pop rbx
2bc3: 5d pop rbp
2bc4: f3 48 0f bc c2 tzcnt rax,rdx
2bc9: 41 5c pop r12
2bcb: 41 5d pop r13
2bcd: c1 f8 03 sar eax,0x3
2bd0: 41 5e pop r14
2bd2: 41 5f pop r15
2bd4: 48 01 c7 add rdi,rax
2bd7: 48 89 f8 mov rax,rdi
2bda: c3 ret
Disassembly of section .fini:
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
This is already quite tight scalar code. Let's do a final round of confirmation and check the full gate as sanity.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade --full 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
build 1.5s
verify 0.8s PASS (FULL gate)
measure 1.2s 22,523,710 instructions (given: 51,654,185)
SCORE +1.1974 (2.293x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Full exhaustive gate passes with score ~1.2 (~2.3x). Let's try one more optimization idea: reduce the check overhead in the main loop by combining `i >= in_len` check with the escape length checks, and see if avoiding the `c != 0x5C` branch helps by checking length differently.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat submission/solve.c | sed -n '/size_t json_unescape/,/^}/p'"}
tool result
size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
size_t i = 0, o = 0;
while (i < in_len) {
size_t start = i;
i = g_scan_copy(in, i, in_len, out + o);
o += i - start;
if (i >= in_len) break;
uint8_t c = in[i];
if (c != 0x5C) return INVALID; // control byte or bare '"'
// Backslash escape.
if (i + 1 >= in_len) return INVALID;
uint8_t e = in[i + 1];
if (e != 'u') {
int decoded = SIMPLE_ESCAPE[e];
if (decoded < 0) return INVALID;
out[o++] = (uint8_t)decoded;
i += 2;
continue;
}
// \uXXXX
if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID;
unsigned cu;
if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &cu) < 0) return INVALID;
i += 6;
if (cu >= 0xD800 && cu <= 0xDBFF) {
if (i + 6 > in_len || in[i] != '\\' || in[i + 1] != 'u')
return INVALID;
unsigned lo_cu;
if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &lo_cu) < 0) return INVALID;
if (lo_cu < 0xDC00 || lo_cu > 0xDFFF) return INVALID;
i += 6;
unsigned cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo_cu - 0xDC00);
// Surrogate pairs always decode to a supplementary code point
// (>= 0x10000), which is always exactly 4 UTF-8 bytes: no need
// to re-check the length thresholds.
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
continue;
} else if (cu >= 0xDC00 && cu <= 0xDFFF) {
return INVALID;
}
// A lone \uXXXX (not part of a surrogate pair) is always a BMP code
// point outside the surrogate range, i.e. < 0x10000: only 3 length
// classes are possible.
if (cu < 0x80) {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)cu;
} else if (cu < 0x800) {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xC0 | (cu >> 6));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cu & 0x3F));
} else {
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xE0 | (cu >> 12));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cu >> 6) & 0x3F));
out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cu & 0x3F));
}
}
return o;
}
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade --seed 42 --quiet 2>&1\ncallgrind_annotate .build/callgrind.runner.out submission/solve.c 2>/dev/null > /tmp/ann4.txt\ngrep -n \"json_unescape\\b\" /tmp/ann4.txt | head -5"}
tool result
SCORE +1.2022 (2.301x)
26:2,427,595 (56.82%) submission/solve.c:json_unescape [/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/.build/runner]
151: 6,000 ( 0.14%) size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat > /tmp/sse42scan.c << 'EOF'\n#include <smmintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"sse4.2\")))\nstatic size_t scan_copy_sse42(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n size_t start = i;\n __m128i ranges = _mm_setr_epi8(\n 0x00, 0x1F,\n 0x22, 0x22,\n 0x5C, 0x5C,\n 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\n );\n while (i + 16 <= in_len) {\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)(in + i));\n _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i*)(out + (i - start)), v);\n int idx = _mm_cmpistri(ranges, v, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n if (idx < 16) return i + (size_t)idx;\n i += 16;\n }\n // scalar tail\n while (i < in_len) {\n uint8_t c = in[i];\n if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;\n out[i - start] = c;\n i++;\n }\n return i;\n}\n\nint main(int argc, char**argv){\n uint8_t buf[64];\n memset(buf, 'a', 64);\n buf[40] = 1;\n uint8_t out[64];\n size_t r = scan_copy_sse42(buf, 0, 64, out);\n printf(\"%zu\\n\", r);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/sse42scan.c -o /tmp/sse42scan && /tmp/sse42scan\nvalgrind /tmp/sse42scan 2>&1 | tail -5"}
tool result
64
==2934==
==2934== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==2934==
==2934== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==2934== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/sse42scan2.c << 'EOF'\n#include <smmintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"sse4.2\")))\nstatic size_t scan_copy_sse42(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {\n size_t start = i;\n __m128i ranges = _mm_setr_epi8(\n 0x00, 0x1F,\n 0x22, 0x22,\n 0x5C, 0x5C,\n 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\n );\n while (i + 16 <= in_len) {\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)(in + i));\n _mm_storeu_si128((__m128i*)(out + (i - start)), v);\n int idx = _mm_cmpistri(ranges, v, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n if (idx < 16) return i + (size_t)idx;\n i += 16;\n }\n while (i < in_len) {\n uint8_t c = in[i];\n if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;\n out[i - start] = c;\n i++;\n }\n return i;\n}\n\nint main(int argc, char**argv){\n uint8_t buf[64];\n memset(buf, 'a', 64);\n buf[10] = 1;\n uint8_t out[64];\n size_t r = scan_copy_sse42(buf, 0, 64, out);\n printf(\"%zu\\n\", r);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/sse42scan2.c -o /tmp/sse42scan2 && /tmp/sse42scan2"}
tool result
64
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/sse42scan3.c << 'EOF'\n#include <smmintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"sse4.2\")))\nint main(){\n __m128i ranges = _mm_setr_epi8(\n 0x00, 0x1F,\n 0x22, 0x22,\n 0x5C, 0x5C,\n 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\n );\n uint8_t buf[16];\n memset(buf, 'a', 16);\n buf[10] = 1;\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n int idx = _mm_cmpistri(ranges, v, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n printf(\"idx=%d\\n\", idx);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/sse42scan3.c -o /tmp/sse42scan3 && /tmp/sse42scan3"}
tool result
idx=16
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/sse42scan4.c << 'EOF'\n#include <smmintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"sse4.2\")))\nint main(){\n // try _mm_set_epi8 (reverse order) instead of setr\n __m128i ranges = _mm_set_epi8(\n 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,\n 0x5C, 0x5C,\n 0x22, 0x22,\n 0x1F, 0x00\n );\n uint8_t buf[16];\n memset(buf, 'a', 16);\n buf[10] = 1;\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n int idx = _mm_cmpistri(ranges, v, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n printf(\"idx=%d\\n\", idx);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/sse42scan4.c -o /tmp/sse42scan4 && /tmp/sse42scan4"}
tool result
idx=16
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/sse42scan5.c << 'EOF'\n#include <smmintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"sse4.2\")))\nint main(){\n __m128i ranges = _mm_setr_epi8(\n 0x00, 0x1F,\n 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\n );\n uint8_t buf[16];\n memset(buf, 'a', 16);\n buf[10] = 1;\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n int idx = _mm_cmpistri(ranges, v, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n printf(\"idx=%d (expect 10)\\n\", idx);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/sse42scan5.c -o /tmp/sse42scan5 && /tmp/sse42scan5"}
tool result
idx=16 (expect 10)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "objdump -d /tmp/sse42scan5 | grep -A15 \"<main>:\""}
tool result
0000000000001050 <main>:
1050: 48 83 ec 28 sub $0x28,%rsp
1054: 48 8d 3d a9 0f 00 00 lea 0xfa9(%rip),%rdi # 2004 <_IO_stdin_used+0x4>
105b: 64 48 8b 04 25 28 00 mov %fs:0x28,%rax
1062: 00 00
1064: 48 89 44 24 18 mov %rax,0x18(%rsp)
1069: b8 61 61 61 61 mov $0x61616161,%eax
106e: 66 0f 6e c0 movd %eax,%xmm0
1072: 66 0f 70 c0 00 pshufd $0x0,%xmm0,%xmm0
1077: 0f 29 04 24 movaps %xmm0,(%rsp)
107b: 66 0f 6f 05 9d 0f 00 movdqa 0xf9d(%rip),%xmm0 # 2020 <_IO_stdin_used+0x20>
1082: 00
1083: c6 44 24 0a 01 movb $0x1,0xa(%rsp)
1088: 66 0f 3a 63 04 24 04 pcmpistri $0x4,(%rsp),%xmm0
108f: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax
1091: 89 ce mov %ecx,%esi
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/sse42scan6.c << 'EOF'\n#include <smmintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"sse4.2\")))\nint main(){\n __m128i ranges = _mm_setr_epi8(\n 0x00, 0x1F,\n 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\n );\n uint8_t buf[16];\n memset(buf, 'a', 16);\n buf[10] = 1;\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n int idx = _mm_cmpistri(v, ranges, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n printf(\"idx=%d (expect 10)\\n\", idx);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/sse42scan6.c -o /tmp/sse42scan6 && /tmp/sse42scan6"}
tool result
idx=16 (expect 10)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/sse42scan7.c << 'EOF'\n#include <smmintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"sse4.2\")))\nint main(){\n // test EQUAL_ANY mode first to make sure I understand argument order\n uint8_t needle[16] = {1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}; // look for byte value 1\n __m128i n = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)needle);\n uint8_t buf[16];\n memset(buf, 'a', 16);\n buf[10] = 1;\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n int idx = _mm_cmpistri(n, v, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_EQUAL_ANY | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n printf(\"idx=%d (expect 10)\\n\", idx);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/sse42scan7.c -o /tmp/sse42scan7 && /tmp/sse42scan7"}
tool result
idx=10 (expect 10)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Good, argument order confirmed correct. Now range mode must need the length to reflect number of range pairs correctly, or need explicit length via _mm_cmpistri with length control differently.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/sse42scan8.c << 'EOF'\n#include <smmintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"sse4.2\")))\nint main(){\n // ranges: pairs (low,high). Try single range 0x00-0x1F only, fill rest with the SAME high pair repeated to avoid interfering? Actually since implicit length mode uses null terminator in ranges array too (first zero byte ends the \"needle\" string)\n // Test with explicit-length variant instead: cmpestri\n uint8_t rbuf[2] = {0x00, 0x1F};\n __m128i ranges = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)rbuf);\n uint8_t buf[16];\n memset(buf, 'a', 16);\n buf[10] = 1;\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n int idx = _mm_cmpestri(ranges, 2, v, 16, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n printf(\"idx=%d (expect 10)\\n\", idx);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/sse42scan8.c -o /tmp/sse42scan8 && /tmp/sse42scan8"}
tool result
idx=10 (expect 10)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cat > /tmp/sse42scan9.c << 'EOF'\n#include <smmintrin.h>\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <string.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n\n__attribute__((target(\"sse4.2\")))\nint main(){\n uint8_t rbuf[6] = {0x00, 0x1F, 0x22, 0x22, 0x5C, 0x5C};\n __m128i ranges = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)rbuf);\n uint8_t buf[16];\n memset(buf, 'a', 16);\n buf[10] = 1;\n __m128i v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n int idx = _mm_cmpestri(ranges, 6, v, 16, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n printf(\"idx=%d (expect 10)\\n\", idx);\n\n memset(buf, 'a', 16);\n buf[7] = '\"';\n v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n idx = _mm_cmpestri(ranges, 6, v, 16, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n printf(\"idx=%d (expect 7)\\n\", idx);\n\n memset(buf, 'a', 16);\n buf[3] = '\\\\';\n v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n idx = _mm_cmpestri(ranges, 6, v, 16, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n printf(\"idx=%d (expect 3)\\n\", idx);\n\n memset(buf, 'a', 16);\n v = _mm_loadu_si128((const __m128i*)buf);\n idx = _mm_cmpestri(ranges, 6, v, 16, _SIDD_UBYTE_OPS | _SIDD_CMP_RANGES | _SIDD_LEAST_SIGNIFICANT);\n printf(\"idx=%d (expect 16)\\n\", idx);\n}\nEOF\ngcc -O2 -std=c17 /tmp/sse42scan9.c -o /tmp/sse42scan9 && /tmp/sse42scan9"}
tool result
idx=10 (expect 10)
idx=7 (expect 7)
idx=3 (expect 3)
idx=16 (expect 16)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
cmpestri works. Now let's implement this scan approach and measure.
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/sse42scan9 2>&1 | tail -8"}
tool result
==3110== Process terminating with default action of signal 4 (SIGILL): dumping core
==3110== Illegal opcode at address 0x40010B4
==3110== at 0x40010B4: main (in /tmp/sse42scan9)
==3110==
==3110== Events : Ir
==3110== Collected : 123994
==3110==
==3110== I refs: 123,994
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "valgrind /tmp/sse42scan9 2>&1 | head -15"}
tool result
==3129== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==3129== Copyright (C) 2002-2024, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==3129== Using Valgrind-3.25.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==3129== Command: /tmp/sse42scan9
==3129==
vex amd64->IR: unhandled instruction bytes: 0x66 0xF 0x3A 0x61 0x54 0x24 0x30 0x4 0x31 0xC0
vex amd64->IR: REX=0 REX.W=0 REX.R=0 REX.X=0 REX.B=0
vex amd64->IR: VEX=0 VEX.L=0 VEX.nVVVV=0x0 ESC=0F3A
vex amd64->IR: PFX.66=1 PFX.F2=0 PFX.F3=0
==3129== valgrind: Unrecognised instruction at address 0x40010b4.
==3129== at 0x40010B4: main (in /tmp/sse42scan9)
==3129== Your program just tried to execute an instruction that Valgrind
==3129== did not recognise. There are two possible reasons for this.
==3129== 1. Your program has a bug and erroneously jumped to a non-code
==3129== location. If you are running Memcheck and you just saw a
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && for s in 10 20 30 40 50; do ./grade --seed $s 2>&1 | tail -1; done"}
tool result
SCORE +1.2122 (2.317x)
SCORE +1.1940 (2.288x)
SCORE +1.2183 (2.327x)
SCORE +1.1991 (2.296x)
SCORE +1.2224 (2.333x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cat submission/solve.c | wc -l"}
tool result
276
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Since PCMPESTRI is not supported by valgrind's emulator (SIGILL), it would crash the grading environment. Not usable. Let's stick with AVX2/AVX512/SWAR (all supported by valgrind). Let's verify AVX2 is indeed emulated correctly and check that AVX512 path (if triggered by real hardware in future) is also emulated correctly, since it seemed to SIGILL earlier for the raw test but let's recheck within our actual submission context.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && valgrind --tool=callgrind --collect-atstart=yes /tmp/force512b 2>&1 | tail -8\necho \"note: standalone _mm512_cmplt_epu8_mask crashes valgrind; but does the full runner crash too?\"\nvalgrind .build/runner .build/corpus_42.bin 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
==3321== Illegal opcode at address 0x400124B
==3321== at 0x400124B: scan (in /tmp/force512b)
==3321== by 0x40010E0: main (in /tmp/force512b)
==3321==
==3321== Events : Ir
==3321== Collected : 124232
==3321==
==3321== I refs: 124,232
note: standalone _mm512_cmplt_epu8_mask crashes valgrind; but does the full runner crash too?
==3329== LEAK SUMMARY:
==3329== definitely lost: 4,214,811 bytes in 2 blocks
==3329== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==3329== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==3329== still reachable: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==3329== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==3329== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory
==3329==
==3329== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==3329== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
This confirms our runner doesn't crash because `__builtin_cpu_supports("avx512f")` under valgrind's emulated CPUID returns false, so it correctly falls back to AVX2, which valgrind does support. Good — that's the correct, safe behavior. Let's do a final full validation with several seeds plus the full gate.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade --full --seed 999 2>&1 | tail -10\n./grade --full --seed 123 2>&1 | tail -10"}
tool result
build 1.4s
verify 0.8s PASS (FULL gate)
measure 1.2s 23,296,544 instructions (given: 53,553,974)
SCORE +1.2009 (2.299x)
build 1.4s
verify 0.8s PASS (FULL gate)
measure 1.1s 22,653,498 instructions (given: 52,076,284)
SCORE +1.2009 (2.299x)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Consistent, robust ~+1.2 score (2.3x speedup) with full exhaustive verification passing. Let's commit.
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape && git status 2>&1 | head -20"}
tool result
fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape && find . -maxdepth 3 -name \".git\""}
tool result
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
No git repo here, so no commit needed. Let's do a final review of the submission file.
tool call: read
{"file_path": "/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/submission/solve.c"}
tool result
1 // solve.c — optimized json_unescape.
2 //
3 // The three "special" byte classes (control 0x00-0x1F, '"'=0x22, '\\'=0x5C)
4 // are all < 0x80, so every high-bit-set byte is unconditionally plain
5 // passthrough. We exploit that with a vectorized scan-and-copy: as we scan
6 // for the next special byte we simultaneously write the scanned bytes
7 // straight to the output, fusing what would otherwise be a separate memcpy
8 // pass over the same memory. This is safe because the output cursor `o`
9 // never exceeds the input cursor `i` (every escape consumes >=2 input bytes
10 // to produce <=4 output bytes, so input_consumed >= output_produced always),
11 // so writing a full vector width at the current output position never
12 // overruns the caller-guaranteed `3*in_len+4` capacity, even when the vector
13 // spans past the next special byte (the excess bytes are harmless scratch,
14 // later overwritten by correctly-positioned subsequent writes, or simply
15 // unused if that was the final chunk -- capacity is guaranteed, not that
16 // every written byte is "meaningful").
17 //
18 // Two scan-and-copy implementations are provided:
19 // - AVX-512 (64 bytes/iteration) and AVX2 (32 bytes/iteration) on x86,
20 // selected at runtime.
21 // - Portable 8-byte SWAR (Bit Twiddling Hacks haszero/hasless) fallback.
22 // The choice is made once via a constructor (run before any measured call);
23 // per the grading rules, one-time setup (including CPU feature detection)
24 // is not counted, only per-call work.
25 #include <stdint.h>
26 #include <stddef.h>
27 #include <string.h>
28
29 #define INVALID ((size_t)-1)
30
31 // -1 for non-hex-digit bytes, else the nibble value 0-15.
32 static const int8_t HEXVAL[256] = {
33 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
34 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
35 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
36 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
37 -1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
38 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
39 -1,10,11,12,13,14,15,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
40 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
41 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
42 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
43 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
44 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
45 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
46 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
47 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
48 -1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,
49 };
50
51 // HEXPAIR[w], where w = p[0] | (p[1] << 8) (i.e. a native-endian 16-bit load
52 // of two consecutive input bytes), gives the combined byte value
53 // (hexval(p[0]) << 4) | hexval(p[1]) if both are hex digits, else -1. This
54 // turns "decode 2 hex digits" into a single table lookup instead of two
55 // lookups + an OR + a shift. Built once by a constructor (compile-time
56 // setup is not counted; only per-call work is).
57 static int16_t HEXPAIR[65536];
58
59 __attribute__((constructor))
60 static void init_hexpair(void) {
61 for (int b1 = 0; b1 < 256; b1++) {
62 int h1 = HEXVAL[b1];
63 for (int b0 = 0; b0 < 256; b0++) {
64 int h0 = HEXVAL[b0];
65 int idx = b0 | (b1 << 8);
66 HEXPAIR[idx] = (int16_t)((h0 < 0 || h1 < 0) ? -1 : ((h0 << 4) | h1));
67 }
68 }
69 }
70
71 // Decoded byte for each simple \X escape, or -1 if X is not a valid simple
72 // escape character. 'u' (which needs separate \uXXXX handling) is also -1
73 // here and is special-cased by the caller before consulting this table.
74 static const int16_t SIMPLE_ESCAPE[256] = {
75 [0 ... 255] = -1,
76 ['"'] = '"',
77 ['\\'] = '\\',
78 ['/'] = '/',
79 ['b'] = '\b',
80 ['f'] = '\f',
81 ['n'] = '\n',
82 ['r'] = '\r',
83 ['t'] = '\t',
84 };
85
86 static inline int parse_hex4(const uint8_t *p, unsigned *out) {
87 uint16_t w0, w1;
88 memcpy(&w0, p, 2);
89 memcpy(&w1, p + 2, 2);
90 int hi = HEXPAIR[w0];
91 int lo = HEXPAIR[w1];
92 if ((hi | lo) < 0) return -1;
93 *out = (unsigned)((hi << 8) | lo);
94 return 0;
95 }
96
97 // Scans forward from `i` copying plain (non-special) bytes to `out` until
98 // hitting a special byte (< 0x20, '"', or '\\') or the input end. Returns
99 // the new i; the caller adds (new_i - old_i) to its own output cursor.
100 typedef size_t (*scan_copy_fn)(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
101
102 static size_t scan_copy_scalar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
103 size_t start = i;
104 while (i < in_len) {
105 uint8_t c = in[i];
106 if (c < 0x20 || c == 0x22 || c == 0x5C) break;
107 out[i - start] = c;
108 i++;
109 }
110 return i;
111 }
112
113 static inline uint64_t load64(const uint8_t *p) {
114 uint64_t v;
115 memcpy(&v, p, 8);
116 return v;
117 }
118 static inline uint64_t haszero(uint64_t v) {
119 return (v - 0x0101010101010101ULL) & ~v & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
120 }
121 static inline uint64_t hasvalue(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
122 return haszero(x ^ (0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n));
123 }
124 static inline uint64_t hasless(uint64_t x, uint8_t n) {
125 return (x - 0x0101010101010101ULL * (uint64_t)n) & ~x & 0x8080808080808080ULL;
126 }
127
128 static size_t scan_copy_swar(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
129 size_t start = i;
130 while (i + 8 <= in_len) {
131 uint64_t w = load64(in + i);
132 memcpy(out + (i - start), &w, 8);
133 uint64_t special = hasless(w, 0x20) | hasvalue(w, 0x22) | hasvalue(w, 0x5C);
134 if (special) {
135 int bit = __builtin_ctzll(special);
136 return i + (size_t)(bit >> 3);
137 }
138 i += 8;
139 }
140 return scan_copy_scalar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
141 }
142
143 #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
144 #include <immintrin.h>
145
146 __attribute__((target("avx512f,avx512bw,avx512vl")))
147 static size_t scan_copy_avx512(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
148 size_t start = i;
149 __m512i lo = _mm512_set1_epi8(0x20);
150 __m512i qt = _mm512_set1_epi8(0x22);
151 __m512i bs = _mm512_set1_epi8(0x5C);
152 while (i + 64 <= in_len) {
153 __m512i v = _mm512_loadu_si512((const void *)(in + i));
154 // Safe to store the full 64 bytes even when a special byte lies
155 // within this chunk: o <= i always, so o + 64 <= i + 64 <= in_len
156 // <= output capacity (3*in_len+4). Bytes past the eventual escape
157 // boundary are harmless scratch, overwritten later at the correct
158 // position.
159 _mm512_storeu_si512((void *)(out + (i - start)), v);
160 __mmask64 special = _mm512_cmplt_epu8_mask(v, lo)
161 | _mm512_cmpeq_epi8_mask(v, qt)
162 | _mm512_cmpeq_epi8_mask(v, bs);
163 if (special) {
164 return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctzll((unsigned long long)special);
165 }
166 i += 64;
167 }
168 return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
169 }
170
171 __attribute__((target("avx2")))
172 static size_t scan_copy_avx2(const uint8_t *in, size_t i, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
173 size_t start = i;
174 __m256i qt = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x22);
175 __m256i bs = _mm256_set1_epi8(0x5C);
176 __m256i bias = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)0x80);
177 __m256i lob = _mm256_set1_epi8((char)(0x20 - 0x80));
178 while (i + 32 <= in_len) {
179 __m256i v = _mm256_loadu_si256((const __m256i *)(in + i));
180 _mm256_storeu_si256((__m256i *)(out + (i - start)), v);
181 __m256i vb = _mm256_sub_epi8(v, bias);
182 __m256i lt = _mm256_cmpgt_epi8(lob, vb); // unsigned v < 0x20
183 __m256i eqq = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, qt);
184 __m256i eqb = _mm256_cmpeq_epi8(v, bs);
185 __m256i special = _mm256_or_si256(_mm256_or_si256(lt, eqq), eqb);
186 unsigned mask = (unsigned)_mm256_movemask_epi8(special);
187 if (mask) {
188 return i + (size_t)__builtin_ctz(mask);
189 }
190 i += 32;
191 }
192 return scan_copy_swar(in, i, in_len, out + (i - start));
193 }
194 #endif
195
196 static scan_copy_fn g_scan_copy = scan_copy_swar;
197
198 __attribute__((constructor))
199 static void select_scan_impl(void) {
200 #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__)
201 __builtin_cpu_init();
202 if (__builtin_cpu_supports("avx512f") && __builtin_cpu_supports("avx512bw") &&
203 __builtin_cpu_supports("avx512vl")) {
204 g_scan_copy = scan_copy_avx512;
205 return;
206 }
207 if (__builtin_cpu_supports("avx2")) {
208 g_scan_copy = scan_copy_avx2;
209 return;
210 }
211 #endif
212 g_scan_copy = scan_copy_swar;
213 }
214
215 size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
216 size_t i = 0, o = 0;
217 while (i < in_len) {
218 size_t start = i;
219 i = g_scan_copy(in, i, in_len, out + o);
220 o += i - start;
221
222 if (i >= in_len) break;
223
224 uint8_t c = in[i];
225 if (c != 0x5C) return INVALID; // control byte or bare '"'
226
227 // Backslash escape.
228 if (i + 1 >= in_len) return INVALID;
229 uint8_t e = in[i + 1];
230 if (e != 'u') {
231 int decoded = SIMPLE_ESCAPE[e];
232 if (decoded < 0) return INVALID;
233 out[o++] = (uint8_t)decoded;
234 i += 2;
235 continue;
236 }
237 // \uXXXX
238 if (i + 6 > in_len) return INVALID;
239 unsigned cu;
240 if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &cu) < 0) return INVALID;
241 i += 6;
242 if (cu >= 0xD800 && cu <= 0xDBFF) {
243 if (i + 6 > in_len || in[i] != '\\' || in[i + 1] != 'u')
244 return INVALID;
245 unsigned lo_cu;
246 if (parse_hex4(in + i + 2, &lo_cu) < 0) return INVALID;
247 if (lo_cu < 0xDC00 || lo_cu > 0xDFFF) return INVALID;
248 i += 6;
249 unsigned cp = 0x10000 + ((cu - 0xD800) << 10) + (lo_cu - 0xDC00);
250 // Surrogate pairs always decode to a supplementary code point
251 // (>= 0x10000), which is always exactly 4 UTF-8 bytes: no need
252 // to re-check the length thresholds.
253 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0xF0 | (cp >> 18));
254 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 12) & 0x3F));
255 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | ((cp >> 6) & 0x3F));
256 out[o++] = (uint8_t)(0x80 | (cp & 0x3F));
257 continue;
258 } else if (cu >= 0xDC00 && cu <= 0xDFFF) {
259 return INVALID;
260 }
261 // A lone \uXXXX (not part of a surrogate pair) is always a BMP code
262 // point outside the surrogate range, i.e. < 0x10000: only 3 length
263 // classes are possible.
264 if (cu < 0x80) {
265 out[o++] = (uint8_t)cu;
266 } els
... [403 characters truncated for page size]
assistant
This looks good. Let's do one more sanity check that the buffer bounds are truly safe (fuzz with ASAN quickly to be extra careful about the vectorized overwrite-scratch trick).
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && mkdir -p /tmp/asantest && cc -O1 -g -fsanitize=address,undefined -std=c17 -I submission submission/solve.c verify/verify.c -o /tmp/asantest/verify_asan -lm -lpthread 2>&1 | tail -30"}
tool result
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/home/.jcode/scratch/ccupYniS.o: in function `check':
/tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape/verify/verify.c:34:(.text+0x230): undefined reference to `ref_json_unescape'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cc -O1 -g -fsanitize=address,undefined -std=c17 -I submission submission/solve.c verify/reference.c verify/verify.c -o /tmp/asantest/verify_asan -lm -lpthread 2>&1 | tail -30"}
tool result
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && /tmp/asantest/verify_asan 42 2>&1 | tail -30"}
tool result
verify: PASS (4596952 cases)
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
The verify buffer is a large fixed static array so ASAN won't catch overruns within it. Let's build a stricter ASAN test using exact-sized heap buffers.
tool call: write
{"content": "// Strict ASAN test: allocate output buffer at exactly the contractual\n// capacity (3*in_len+4) so any write beyond it is caught immediately.\n#include <stdint.h>\n#include <stddef.h>\n#include <stdio.h>\n#include <stdlib.h>\n#include <string.h>\n\nsize_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);\n\nstatic void run_one(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len) {\n size_t cap = 3 * in_len + 4;\n uint8_t *out = malloc(cap);\n memset(out, 0xAA, cap);\n size_t r = json_unescape(in, in_len, out);\n (void)r;\n free(out);\n}\n\nint main(void) {\n // Exhaustive short strings over full byte alphabet up to length 3.\n uint8_t buf[8];\n for (int len = 0; len <= 3; len++) {\n long total = 1;\n for (int k = 0; k < len; k++) total *= 256;\n for (long v = 0; v < total; v++) {\n long t = v;\n for (int k = 0; k < len; k++) {\n buf[k] = (uint8_t)(t & 0xFF);\n t >>= 8;\n }\n run_one(buf, (size_t)len);\n }\n }\n // A long plain run, long escape-heavy run, long unicode/surrogate run.\n {\n uint8_t big[5000];\n for (size_t i = 0; i < sizeof(big); i++) big[i] = 'a' + (i % 26);\n for (size_t len = 0; len <= sizeof(big); len += 7) run_one(big, len);\n }\n {\n uint8_t big[5000];\n for (size_t i = 0; i + 6 <= sizeof(big); i += 6) {\n memcpy(big + i, \"\\\\u0041\", 6);\n }\n for (size_t len = 0; len <= sizeof(big); len += 6) run_one(big, len);\n }\n {\n uint8_t big[5000];\n for (size_t i = 0; i + 12 <= sizeof(big); i += 12) {\n memcpy(big + i, \"\\\\ud800\\\\udc00\", 12);\n }\n for (size_t len = 0; len <= sizeof(big); len += 12) run_one(big, len);\n }\n printf(\"strict ASAN pass complete\\n\");\n return 0;\n}\n", "file_path": "/tmp/asantest/strict.c"}
tool result
Created /tmp/asantest/strict.c (57 lines):
1+ // Strict ASAN test: allocate output buffer at exactly the contractual
2+ // capacity (3*in_len+4) so any write beyond it is caught immediately.
3+ #include <stdint.h>
4+ #include <stddef.h>
5+ #include <stdio.h>
6+ #include <stdlib.h>
7+ #include <string.h>
9+ size_t json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out);
11+ static void run_one(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len) {
12+ size_t cap = 3 * in_len + 4;
13+ uint8_t *out = malloc(cap);
14+ memset(out, 0xAA, cap);
15+ size_t r = json_unescape(in, in_len, out);
16+ (void)r;
17+ free(out);
18+ }
20+ int main(void) {
21+ // Exhaustive short strings over full byte alphabet up to length 3.
22+ uint8_t buf[8];
23+ for (int len = 0; len <= 3; len++) {
...
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cc -O1 -g -fsanitize=address,undefined -std=c17 -I submission submission/solve.c /tmp/asantest/strict.c -o /tmp/asantest/strict_asan -lm 2>&1 | tail -30"}
tool result
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
tool call: bash
{"command": "/tmp/asantest/strict_asan 2>&1 | tail -60"}
tool result
strict ASAN pass complete
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
No ASAN violations — the out-of-window vector writes are always within the guaranteed capacity. Let's also test that these strict cases match the reference (not just don't crash).
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && cc -O1 -g -fsanitize=address,undefined -std=c17 -I submission submission/solve.c verify/reference.c /tmp/asantest/strict.c -o /tmp/asantest/strict_asan2 -lm -DHAS_REF 2>&1 | tail -20\ngrep -n \"ref_json_unescape\" verify/reference.c | head -3"}
tool result
52:size_t ref_json_unescape(const uint8_t *in, size_t in_len, uint8_t *out) {
--- Command finished with exit code: 0 ---
assistant
Already validated via ./grade --full (exhaustive gate). The strict ASAN test confirms memory safety of the vectorized approach. Final confirmation run:
tool call: bash
{"command": "cd /tmp/jcode-bench/20260719T023554Z-jcode-solo-claude-sonnet-5-json-unescape/tasks/json-unescape && ./grade 2>&1 | tail -10\necho \"---\"\ntail -5 scores.jsonl"}
tool result
build 1.4s
verify 0.8s PASS
measure 1.1s 22,611,413 instructions (given: 51,742,913)
SCORE +1.1943 (2.288x)
---
{"ts": "2026-07-19T03:22:30Z", "seed": 40, "cost": 22597532, "given_cost": 51883508, "score": 1.1991, "full_gate": false}
{"ts": "2026-07-19T03:22:34Z", "seed": 50, "cost": 22168768, "given_cost": 51726833, "score": 1.2224, "full_gate": false}
{"ts": "2026-07-19T03:23:36Z", "seed": 999, "cost": 23296544, "given_cost": 53553974, "score": 1.2009, "full_gate": true}
{"ts": "2026-07-19T03:23:40Z", "seed": 123, "cost": 22653498, "given_cost": 52076284, "score": 1.2009, "full_gate": true}
{"ts": "2026-07-19T03:24:44Z", "seed": 31481, "cost": 22611413, "given_cost": 51742913, "score": 1.1943, "full_gate": false}
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assistant
Final score: **+1.20** (~2.3x speedup over the given implementation), verified against the exhaustive correctness gate and confirmed stable across many random seeds.
Summary of optimizations in `submission/solve.c`:
1. **Fused vectorized scan-and-copy**: instead of scanning for special bytes then `memcpy`-ing the run separately, the scan writes each vector chunk to the output immediately (safe because output position never exceeds input position, and buffer capacity is guaranteed).
2. **SIMD**: AVX-512 (64B/iter) and AVX2 (32B/iter) implementations selected at runtime via a constructor, falling back to portable 8-byte SWAR bit-tricks (haszero/hasless) on non-x86 or older CPUs.
3. **Branch-free hex decoding**: a 64K-entry `HEXPAIR` lookup table decodes 2 hex digits per lookup (built once in a constructor, uncounted per spec).
4. **Table-driven simple escapes** replacing the `switch` statement.
5. **Eliminated redundant UTF-8 length branching**: surrogate pairs always emit exactly 4 bytes, lone `\u` escapes are always ≤3 bytes, removing unreachable branches from the hot path.
Rejected an ifunc-based dispatch that appeared to give +14 score — investigation showed it was a measurement artifact (callgrind's `--toggle-collect` only fires around the ifunc resolver call at load time, hiding real per-call work), so I reverted to the honest function-pointer dispatch.
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Good, this works in principle. Let me now write an AVX-512 version that scans 64 bytes per iteration, with runtime CPU detection fallback to the SWAR scalar path (since grading machine may differ, though it seems the same here since -march=native isn't used by grade... let me check grade's CFLAGS).Let's build an AVX-512 accelerated version with runtime CPU dispatch (constructor picks impl; ctor cost isn't counted per spec).Now let's build a full AVX-512-accelerated version with runtime dispatch (falls back to portable SWAR path if AVX-512 unavailable).Good improvement. Let's push further using function pointer via ifunc directly (avoids branch/load of global each call), and also vectorize the memcpy for large plain runs.Good, parse_hex4 is inlined. Since given corpus is dominated by plain and light regimes (65% weight), let's check what fraction of instruction count comes from json_unescape's own dispatch overhead per plain-run segment (the while loop calling g_scan_copy through a function pointer). Let's inline that call directly rather than going through indirect function pointer, using ifunc resolver instead.Let's use ifunc for the whole json_unescape function to avoid indirect call overhead in the hot loop.That's suspicious - callgrind's `--toggle-collect=json_unescape` may not resolve properly with ifunc. Let's check.That result is a measurement artifact from `--toggle-collect` hitting the ifunc resolver at dynamic-link time, not real per-call work. That's gaming the harness rather than a genuine speedup. Let me revert ifunc and keep the safe constructor+function-pointer version.The ifunc trick causes callgrind's `--toggle-collect` to fire only on the resolver call (which happens once at load time), hiding all real per-call work from measurement. That's gaming the profiler, not genuine speedup. Reverting to the safe function-pointer dispatch version.Good, confirmed back to legitimate ~1.9x. Now let's look for further genuine improvements — reduce escape-decode overhead and cross-check with multiple seeds.Consistent ~0.9-0.94. Let's profile again to see where remaining cost is.Let's optimize hex4 parsing with 16-bit paired lookup tables (no cache cost is counted, only instruction count).Good improvement, over 2x now. Let's check multiple seeds and profile further.Consistent ~2.06x. Let's profile again to find remaining opportunities.Code generation looks reasonably tight already. Let's see if reducing the number of branches for common escape kinds via table-driven decode helps, and check the surrogate branch structure.Good, improved. Let's try optimizing the escape-byte switch: since first two chars after `\` determine handling, maybe use a lookup table for simple escapes instead of switch.Let's build a simple-escape lookup table to replace the switch, reducing branch overhead.Nice improvement. Let's confirm across seeds.Great, ~2.3x consistently. Let's profile once more.Now the AVX2 scan is dominant (43% of the func's own instructions is that call). Now the plain-run scan itself dominates cost, which is expected given corpus regime weights (65% mostly plain). Let's check if AVX-512 path is actually taken in the real grading (not just under valgrind).Full gate passes too. Let's now try to reduce cost further by processing 2 vectors at once (loop unrolling) to amortize the loop-branch overhead, and check the swar path since valgrind reports avx2 (not avx512) as chosen under callgrind's actual emulated CPUID.Let's try 2x-unrolling the AVX2 scan (two 32B vectors per iteration, i.e. 64B) to amortize the loop-branch overhead, since AVX2 (not AVX-512) is what callgrind's cpuid emulation exposes.That's worse (2.08 vs 2.27). Revert unrolling.Good, back to good state and even a bit better (natural corpus variance). Let's confirm across seeds.Consistent ~1.2 (2.3x). Now let's try a different approach: reduce the outer loop overhead by inlining the whole thing differently, or try using PCMPESTRI-based scanning (SSE4.2) which might be cheaper per byte due to fewer instructions per vector.This is instruction-count-based scoring (not cycle-accurate), so complex single instructions like PCMPISTRI collapse many logical steps into one retired instruction. Let's test this approach for the scan.This is already quite tight scalar code. Let's do a final round of confirmation and check the full gate as sanity.Full exhaustive gate passes with score ~1.2 (~2.3x). Let's try one more optimization idea: reduce the check overhead in the main loop by combining `i >= in_len` check with the escape length checks, and see if avoiding the `c != 0x5C` branch helps by checking length differently.Good, argument order confirmed correct. Now range mode must need the length to reflect number of range pairs correctly, or need explicit length via _mm_cmpistri with length control differently.cmpestri works. Now let's implement this scan approach and measure.Since PCMPESTRI is not supported by valgrind's emulator (SIGILL), it would crash the grading environment. Not usable. Let's stick with AVX2/AVX512/SWAR (all supported by valgrind). Let's verify AVX2 is indeed emulated correctly and check that AVX512 path (if triggered by real hardware in future) is also emulated correctly, since it seemed to SIGILL earlier for the raw test but let's recheck within our actual submission context.This confirms our runner doesn't crash because `__builtin_cpu_supports("avx512f")` under valgrind's emulated CPUID returns false, so it correctly falls back to AVX2, which valgrind does support. Good — that's the correct, safe behavior. Let's do a final full validation with several seeds plus the full gate.Consistent, robust ~+1.2 score (2.3x speedup) with full exhaustive verification passing. Let's commit.No git repo here, so no commit needed. Let's do a final review of the submission file.This looks good. Let's do one more sanity check that the buffer bounds are truly safe (fuzz with ASAN quickly to be extra careful about the vectorized overwrite-scratch trick).The verify buffer is a large fixed static array so ASAN won't catch overruns within it. Let's build a stricter ASAN test using exact-sized heap buffers.No ASAN violations — the out-of-window vector writes are always within the guaranteed capacity. Let's also test that these strict cases match the reference (not just don't crash).Already validated via ./grade --full (exhaustive gate). The strict ASAN test confirms memory safety of the vectorized approach. Final confirmation run:Final score: **+1.20** (~2.3x speedup over the given implementation), verified against the exhaustive correctness gate and confirmed stable across many random seeds.
Summary of optimizations in `submission/solve.c`:
1. **Fused vectorized scan-and-copy**: instead of scanning for special bytes then `memcpy`-ing the run separately, the scan writes each vector chunk to the output immediately (safe because output position never exceeds input position, and buffer capacity is guaranteed).
2. **SIMD**: AVX-512 (64B/iter) and AVX2 (32B/iter) implementations selected at runtime via a constructor, falling back to portable 8-byte SWAR bit-tricks (haszero/hasless) on non-x86 or older CPUs.
3. **Branch-free hex decoding**: a 64K-entry `HEXPAIR` lookup table decodes 2 hex digits per lookup (built once in a constructor, uncounted per spec).
4. **Table-driven simple escapes** replacing the `switch` statement.
5. **Eliminated redundant UTF-8 length branching**: surrogate pairs always emit exactly 4 bytes, lone `\u` escapes are always ≤3 bytes, removing unreachable branches from the hot path.
Rejected an ifunc-based dispatch that appeared to give +14 score — investigation showed it was a measurement artifact (callgrind's `--toggle-collect` only fires around the ifunc resolver call at load time, hiding real per-call work), so I reverted to the honest function-pointer dispatch.