Reasoning Tokens
Qwen 3.8 isn't slow. It's just very, very thorough.
Qwen 3.8-27B spent 14,953 tokens on a line the same file writes in nine. All 164 HumanEval problems measured: 92.8% of output is thinking. Plus the four runs that tie it with 3.6.
Why Qwen 3.8 27B Feels Slow: Reasoning Tokens Measured
Qwen 3.8 27B generates at full speed on a 3090 and still crawls. Four runs, two models, two seeds: 92.8% of output is thinking, and the spread runs 320x to 542x.