Do agent workloads actually benefit from KV cache persistence?

Responsible-You9024 · reddit · 2026-09-08

A Reddit thread asks whether KV cache persistence pays off in agent workloads: agents repeatedly revisit the same long context, making recomputation of identical tokens feel wasteful. The poster asks for real measurements of KV reuse and whether the bottleneck ends up being compute, VRAM, or cache retrieval speed.

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