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So throughput was already good but TTFT was the metric that needed more improvement?
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Yeah TTFT was terrible. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to benchmark the most-improved metric.
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To add to the sibling "good is relative" it also depends what you're running, not just your relative tolerances of what good is. E.g. in a MoE the decode speedup means the speed of prompt processing delay is more noticeable for the same size model in RAM.
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Good is relative but first token was clearly the biggest limitation.
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