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A subroutine, or any other simulation or model, isn't a p-zombie as usually defined, since they are physical duplicates. A sim is a functional equivalent (for some value of "equivalent") made of completely different stuff, or no particular kind of stuff.
I wrote a lengthy comment on just that, but scrapped it because it became rambling.
An outsider could indeed tell them apart by scanning for exact structural correspondence, but that seems like cheating. Peering beyond the veil / opening Clippy's box is not allowed in a Turing test scenario, let's define some p-zombie-ish test following the same template. If it quales like a duck (etc.), it probably is sufficiently duck-like.
I would rather maintain p-zombie in its usual meaning, and introduce a new term, eg c-zombie for Turing-indistiguishable functional duplicates.