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Moving intermediate values can be the bottleneck
Attention needs both arithmetic and movement of intermediate values. Optimizing those transfers can change speed and memory use. Benefits depend on the hardware, sequence lengths, implementation, and surrounding workload.
Kernel improvements are not whole-request speedups
An original deployment benchmark should record software versions and measure the full request. A kernel speedup does not necessarily equal the same improvement in end-to-end user latency.
What to remember
Check numerical and workload compatibility.
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