where reranking mattered: what are you seeing?

[modbench]

That matches what I was seeing. I don't think your conclusion is far off. Worth rechecking your defaults though, because one bad assumption can make the rest of the thread look confusing.

[benchplease]

Tried to reproduce it just now. I couldn't reproduce the slowdown until I pushed context much higher.

[cobaltlab]

Not sure I agree there. I get why that seems right, but on Threadripper box the bottleneck felt elsewhere.