Padding does not change the answers: 32 texts one by one versus one batch of 32. same labels: true, largest score difference 0.00e+00 Time to classify 32 texts, median of 5 runs after a warm-up, by batch size: batch size 1: 230 ms in total, 7.2 ms per text batch size 4: 204 ms in total, 6.4 ms per text batch size 8: 166 ms in total, 5.2 ms per text batch size 16: 142 ms in total, 4.4 ms per text batch size 32: 134 ms in total, 4.2 ms per text