Compute acceptance from counter snapshots, reject reset-contaminated windows, and handle EOS before inferring request-step counts. Then decide what a matched-load baseline must measure.
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You turned on speculative decoding in production. What do you measure to prove it helps, and what is the right baseline to compare against?
Compute acceptance from counter snapshots, reject reset-contaminated windows, and handle EOS before inferring request-step counts. Then decide what a matched-load baseline must measure.
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