THE LAB / REPRODUCIBLE RESULTS
Measured, not assumed.
Hardware, workload and cache state belong beside every performance claim.
OCTOBER 26, 2026 / SHORT CODING REQUESTS
Cache state changes the picture.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GSQ-RCO-Coder-GGUF · Temperature 0 · Reasoning off · Maximum output 256 tokens
Warm engine; one warmup, six alternating identical short coding requests. Temperature 0, reasoning off, max 256. Light samples every five seconds; process/GPU snapshots not enabled. The uncached warmup produced 237 output tokens; completed cached samples produced 243. Hardware fit and performance vary.
What we report
We distinguish prompt processing, generation speed, time to first token, total task time and cache state. A fast repeat of a short request does not establish performance on an entire repository.
What comes next
Future comparisons should hold model, quantization, prompt, output budget, background load and runtime settings constant, then repeat each condition. Longer coding tasks need correctness checks alongside speed.
