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zargonyesterday at 5:24 PM1 replyview on HN

If someone doesn't specifically say prefill then they always mean decode speed. I have never seen an exception. Most people just ignore prefill.


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kpw94yesterday at 5:40 PM

But isn't the prefill speed the bottleneck in some systems* ?

Sure it's order of magnitude faster (10x on Apple Metal?) but there's also order of magnitude more tokens to process, especially for tasks involving summarization of some sort.

But point taken that the parent numbers are probably decode

* Specifically, Mac metal, which is what parent numbers are about

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