Measured on a tiny H3: backward growth was ~75 MB per block, now flat (61-88 MB at 2, 8 and 16 blocks). The in-place mul_/addcmul_ on slices of the stream in the block helpers were the cause. UNTESTED on the real weights. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MpnF7GwNGMbngU11wjym7P