# Time to rerank N candidates (median and slowest of 12 calls, after 3 warm-up calls)

machine: 2 vCPU, JDK 25.0.5
fp32 cross-encoder, max length 256 tokens; the first column of each cell is the median in ms, the second the slowest

candidates   batch 1        batch 8        batch 32       batch 32, 1 thread
10           125 / 188      121 / 142      122 / 138      148 / 208     
20           205 / 226      195 / 220      220 / 257      322 / 411     
50           546 / 661      512 / 578      489 / 549      800 / 913     
94           897 / 1062     838 / 966      962 / 1075     1635 / 1928   
