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perf(ArcKernels): skip dead decode-GEMV zero fills (+ an ARC_DS_CACHE patch that is NOT wired into the build) - #189

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perf(ArcKernels): skip dead decode-GEMV zero fills (+ an ARC_DS_CACHE patch that is NOT wired into the build)#189
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- feat(ArcKV/Fp8): fused E4M3 quantize+dequantize CUDA kernel, default path
  
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- fix(ArcKV/Fp8): inline-PTX IEEE ops (fast-math rewrote __f*_rn to .ftz) + box paths
  
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- test(ArcKV/Fp8): exhaustive 2^32 E4M3 sweep + its negative control
  
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- test(ArcLab): per-step D2H + launch counter, validated on a known answer
  
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- test(ArcKV/Fp8): nsys count harness with lock + VRAM gate
  
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- test(ArcLab): count CUDA API calls per step too, incl. the invisible sync
  
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- fix(ArcLab): hold the bench lock across GPU work ONLY, not report export
  
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- test(ArcKV/Fp8): interleaved A/B driver with per-leg lock + Xid check
  
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- measure(ArcKV/Fp8): 44 -> 1 D2H/step; fused kernel 1.98 us/call [MEASURED]
  
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- fix(ArcKV/Fp8): ARC_KV_FP8_MODE was a lying switch — rename, and stop typos selecting GpuApprox
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- fix(build): EXPECTED_KERNEL_COUNT 40 -> 41 — this branch adds arc_kvquant.cu
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- perf(arckv): make candle's caching allocator reachable and on for decode
  
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- perf(arckv): bound the caching allocator, and print the counters that prove it
  
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- fix(build): report_alloc_cache_step takes a reference
  
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- chore(deps): candle 859c49c8 — allocator test fixes
  
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- chore(deps): candle 89ab14ef — no eviction inside the capture window
  
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- fix(ci): spell 'unparsable' the way the typos gate expects
  
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- fix(deps): regenerate Cargo.lock for the candle 89ab14ef pin
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- perf(ArcMoE): fuse the V4 router region — 18+9 launches become 2, and fix the sinkhorn local-memory spill
  
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- fix(ArcMoE): cuda-gated build — device_ptr guard lifetime and monomorphic wrap closure
  
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- test(ArcMoE): extend the build-wiring tripwire to hc_fused.cu
  
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- docs(ArcMoE): cite the measured H200 numbers, not the estimates
  
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- perf(ArcInfer/ArcMoE): fuse the mHC epilogue and post-step — 14 launches per mixing point become 7
  
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- perf(ArcInfer/ArcAttention): fuse the V4 Q/K pre-attention block -- 16 launches per layer become 1
  
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- perf(ArcInfer/ArcMoE): close the F32 seam — 5 sites, ~950 launches + 258 H2D copies per decode forward
  
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- test(ArcGate): per-site A/B accounting, and name the two comparisons that are measurements
  
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- docs(ArcInfer/ArcMoE): record the measured F32-seam result
  
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- perf(ArcKernels): skip the provably-dead output zero fills on the two decode GEMVs
  
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- perf(ArcKernels): device-resident layout-descriptor cache in candle (ARC_DS_CACHE)
  
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- fix(ArcKernels): make the dead-zero-fill saving the DEFAULT, not a magic word
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- style(ArcMoE): rename the typo-flagged locals in hc_y_combine_cuda
  
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Commits on Aug 20, 2026