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by Me1000 824 days ago
The time processing the longer prompt isn't being spent churning (i.e. "thinking") on the problem at hand, it's spend calculating attention matrices between all the tokens. The time spent on this is a function of the number of flops you have available.

So no, if you just fill up your context window to garbage, the LLM will not perform better at your task/question.