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Local LLM: Time to first token
Measure request arrival to first generated token separately from total completion time.
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Local LLM: Generation throughput
Measure output tokens per second after the first token using the runtime's tokenizer counts.
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Local LLM: Prefill throughput
Benchmark prompt processing separately from output decoding.
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Local LLM: Cold versus warm latency
Report model-load time separately from steady-state inference latency.
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Local LLM: Concurrency sweep
Increase concurrent requests gradually while measuring success and latency percentiles.
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Local LLM: Queue time instrumentation
Timestamp admission, execution start and response completion.
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Local LLM: Continuous batching evaluation
Use runtime-supported batching and compare interactive tail latency as well as throughput.
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Local LLM: Prefix cache measurement
Benchmark repeated stable prefixes when the runtime supports prefix caching.
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Local LLM: Cache isolation checks
Verify any prefix or response cache follows the runtime's isolation guarantees.
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Local LLM: Chunked prefill evaluation
Test supported chunked prefill settings with long prompts and interactive requests.
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Local LLM: Output length budgeting
Set output limits from task requirements and detect limit-based truncation.
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Local LLM: Decoding setting baseline
Fix temperature and other supported decoding settings during performance comparisons.
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