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I restarted a 10 year old Xeon 174 times to delete 12 flags and gain 4 TPS


A follow-up to running Gemma 4 on a 2016 Xeon. I took the 25-flag config apart one flag at a time. Twelve of them did nothing here, and the speed I gained came from fixing two flags I kept, not from the pile I deleted.

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