antirez breaks down DwarfStart's three-tier prefill strategy on local hardware
antirez · x · 2026-09-11
antirez explains DwarfStart's three-tier prefill strategy for running DeepSeek v4.1 Flash locally: small prefills use the single-token path with the experts cache like decoding; larger prefills use layer-major prefill, hiding Layer N+1 loading behind Layer N processing; and very large prefills switch to the fully resident encoder. He considers the scheme near-optimal for this setup.
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