Calculating "Time to First Token" (TTFT) for Large Language Models Up to 34Bn Params

Hey folks,

Recently spent time measuring the Time to First Token (TTFT) of various large language models (LLMs) when deployed within Docker containers, and the findings were quite interesting. For those who don't know, TTFT measures the speed from when you send a query to when you get the first response. Here's key findings:

* **Performance Across Token Sizes:** Libraries like Triton-vLLM and vLLM are super quick (\~25 milliseconds) with fewer tokens but slow down significantly (200-300 milliseconds) with more …

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