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Conversation normalization reuses its previous result

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Useful3 Signal2
Performance

Preparing your conversation for each request reuses the unchanged parts instead of rebuilding it.

What

Preparing the message list for a request now caches the previous input and output and reuses the unchanged prefix and suffix when the conversation grows, rather than rebuilding everything each turn.

Details
  • Only streaming assistant messages whose stop reason is still null are re-walked.
  • That pending set is pruned once it exceeds a threshold constant.
Evidence

PRUNE_PENDING_AT

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

Related

Other releases about the same thing. Found by shared names or similar wording; neither means one caused the other.

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