Chunked Prefill: Trading First-Token Time for Smooth Streaming
How engines split long prompts across steps, what the per-step token budget trades between time to first token and time per token, and how to set it.
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How engines split long prompts across steps, what the per-step token budget trades between time to first token and time per token, and how to set it.
Why serving engines re-form the batch at every decode step, what it buys in throughput and latency, and the settings that control it.