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> important results are simply bugs

Probably none. If the paper is important and collects citations, the algorithm is in use. Computer science != working code.

Code is required when you produce something where the scientific importance is less clear. There is need to provide more evidence. Many papers are just "Hey I made some some tweaks and it works in this particular case." Those papers should have working code.

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Most papers leverage a results table which compares the newly proposed approach with existing approaches. This section is baselines the results of the new approach with prior work and helps determine whether a new result is actually important or yet another way to achieve the same results as previous work. e.g. the tables on page 7 of this paper https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Automatic-Acquisition-...

These tables are generated using real implementations that may or may not be correct, and should be subject to review when the paper is published.

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