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Model Router · 2 field reports
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Squeezing Qwen3.8 Until It Cried: A 46.9% Speedup and One Optimization Too Far
A 46.9% Qwen3.8 speedup, a production qualification, and the tempting 64K shortcut that failed when the benchmark got serious.
Promote the full-vocabulary checkpoint: 46.88% faster decode, qualified behavior, and no support for the later 64K shortcut.
210K Context on a 32 GB Arc Pro B70
Three identical cold starts, 179,525 prompt tokens, and a rollback regex that briefly became the main character.
Admitted — the production route passed exact near-180K recall and the complete recovery, vision, reasoning, tool, and MTP suite.