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kardostoday at 3:41 AM1 replyview on HN

French text is somewhere around 10-30% longer than the corresponding English text. I would guess much of what you save on smaller vocabulary is lost on the lengthened text.


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ViscountPenguintoday at 3:42 AM

What would matter more is the token length, depends how well your tokenizer was trained on french I guess.