Positions fall, information does not

Holding the computation fixed, we vary the compression factor c (macro order or base). Generated-trace positions and cache scale as 1/c, generated-trace attention operations as 1/c², and the trace information stays flat; a fixed input prefix is not compressed.

base trace length T 64

log scale

serial positions (∝ 1/c) attention ops (∝ 1/c²) generated KV cache (∝ 1/c) trace information (flat)