Why Separate Prefill and Decode

A long prompt arrives while other users are receiving short answers. Their next tokens become late, even though the server still has enough memory. Before adding GPUs, determine whether the delay comes from shared execution, an overloaded queue, or another part of the request path.

In this lesson

• Shared execution
• The request budget
• Equal resources
• A decision worth testing
• Practice: choose the comparison

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