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speculative decoding actually worth it - deltastation - 10-09-2026
Did a bit of testing and thought I'd post the result here.
I tried this with DeepSeek using llama.cpp on 5090. The headline result was better than I expected, but MoE serving still ended up being the limiting factor.
Nothing scientific here, just practical notes from a real setup.
Re: speculative decoding actually worth it - cacheline - 10-09-2026
subscribed, curious where this lands.
Re: speculative decoding actually worth it - emberrunner - 10-09-2026
Did a small comparison this afternoon. On 5090 with PyTorch, I saw basically the same behavior. The main thing that moved was latency, not quality.