Integrating Sharp Template into NInfer Cuts Output Tokens by 42%

xrailgun · reddit · 2026-08-22

A developer integrated the Sharp system prompt into the NInfer inference engine to reduce output tokens for Qwen models. By overlaying behavior in C++, --chat-style sharp-v22.1 and --reasoning-effort flags were added. Tests on Qwen3.8 27B showed a 42.2% reduction in completion tokens and 22.6% wall time reduction, maintaining decode speed.

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