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Right, but what is the point of optimizing?

It often isn't to make things go faster for an individual user (often times the driving factor of latency is not computation, but inter-system rpc latency, etc.). The value is to bin-pack processing more requests into the same bucket of CPU.

That can have latency wins, but it may not in a lot of contexts.




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