Claude Code reduces long-dialog data size by more than 400x
Anthropic added Message Threads support to Claude Code, cutting request payloads in long conversations from 800 KB to 1.8 KB.
Anthropic has introduced Message Threads support in Claude Code. As a result, the amount of data transferred during long conversations has fallen by more than 400 times.
Request size in long dialogues dropped from 800 KB to 1.8 KB. Time-to-first-token latency when working with context of up to 1 million tokens also decreased by 35%.
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AnalysisSmaller payloads and lower first-token latency make long AI coding sessions more responsive and cheaper to operate.
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