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kgeisttoday at 4:05 AM1 replyview on HN

There's a tendency to cite only decode speeds, but in practice, an LLM generates far fewer tokens than it has to read (unless you ask general knowledge questions). So the effective performance is much slower than the decode rate suggests, because a 512-token prompt already takes 6 minutes to load


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vlovich123today at 4:16 AM

Generally infill is significantly faster than inference due to batching. Is that not the case here for some reason?

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