2026-10-17
Tokens Per Second Is Two Benchmarks Wearing a Trench Coat
A single tokens-per-second score hides prompt ingestion, decoding, and the workload that actually matters. Benchmark both halves or stop comparing machines.
A single tokens-per-second score hides prompt ingestion, decoding, and the workload that actually matters. Benchmark both halves or stop comparing machines.
Diffusion language models can generate text in parallel, but repeated denoising makes them slow. New cache-aware work makes the trade-off worth watching.
Diffusion language models can generate text in parallel, but repeated denoising makes them slow. New cache-aware work makes the trade-off worth watching.