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A streaming benchmark reports fast tokens, but the client pauses. Which timing claims can its trace support?

An event can contain metadata, one token or several tokens. Audit a buffered stream without inventing token timestamps, and separate client launch delay from the engine's execution time.

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An event can contain metadata, one token or several tokens. Audit a buffered stream without inventing token timestamps, and separate client launch delay from the engine's execution time.

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Keep final token counts and their provenance. Retokenizing text deltas separately can disagree with tokenizing the final string, and neither necessarily reproduces the server's generated token IDs.

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