**Ran the E2B at full BF16 precision — 10.**3 GB, 149 minutes, 1.72 tok/s. The result? 91.2%. The Q8 quantized version? 91.8% in 36 minutes at 6.95 tok/s. Read that again: the quantized model scored higher than full precision while running 4× faster. This isn't supposed to happen. Quantization is lossy compression — it should always lose something. But on this hardware, the Q8 model actually benefits from its smaller memory footprint: fewer cache misses, more consistent throughput, and the 'lost' precision apparently doesn't matter for these tasks. The ceiling is a floor. Stop chasing precision. Chase speed.