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How does continuous (in-flight) batching improve LLM serving throughput vs static batching?

Continuous batching is the single biggest throughput lever in modern LLM serving. The signal is explaining why static batching idles the GPU on variable-length generation, and why PagedAttention is what makes the fix practical.

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Continuous batching is the single biggest throughput lever in modern LLM serving. The signal is explaining why static batching idles the GPU on variable-length generation, and why PagedAttention is what makes the fix practical.

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