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Published by r/LocalLLaMA (T2 source). The original is at https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vinr66/qwen_35ba3b_moe_vs_27b_dense_in_local_coding/.

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The summary and note below are generated by the signal pipeline — they are Beyond Desk’s reading, not quotations from the source.

Reddit user reports a head-to-head local coding test between Qwen 35B-A3B MoE and a 27B dense model, finding the MoE roughly 4× faster with a smaller quality gap than expected.

Useful first-glance data point on the speed-quality tradeoff between MoE and dense models of similar size for local coding workloads. Lacks excerpt, so methodology and test scope are unclear.

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