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The cache hit that answered the wrong question

I turned prefix caching back on for a 125B hybrid model on a DGX Spark, with the fixes carried from five open pull requests. Hits landed, a number planted deep in the prompt came back exactly every time, and an 11,000-token prompt dropped from 5.99 s to 0.96 s. Then one request answered the question two other requests were asking. Proving that was not a leak took a better instrument than the one I started with.