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Linked in the Bugzilla thread is a really nice in depth investigation of the same issue with high register aliases in a similar algorithm (Huffman coding) but in an entirely different product: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/oodle-2-9-14-and-in... .

It's concerning that Intel don't seem to have been responsive to anyone with respect to this issue and it doesn't appear to have an official errata yet, although Raptor Lake was the Intel CPU with voltage issues and basically random bit rot so I suppose it's hard to tell if this is a silicon level errata caused by bad design or by some kind of post-manufacturing damage. Raptor Lake in general causes enough non-reproducible noise that I believe Firefox gave up on automated crash reports from it ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1975808 ).

EDIT: I read that Oodle article (which is SO good!) again and realized that their customer-provided reproduction of the bug was directly linked to boost clock speeds (the customer said that overclocking by 5% made it happen entirely reliably), so this is definitely not a "the architecture has a 100% bug in it" but rather some deeper issue with clock propagation that appears at edge cases.

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