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Phase 10 · Lesson 12BuildPython1.3 h24 lessons in phase

Inference Optimization

Two phases define LLM inference. Prefill processes your prompt in parallel -- compute-bound. Decode generates tokens one at a time -- memory-bound. Every optimization targets one or both.

Visual edition planned

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