diff --git a/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py b/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py
index 05088d8d9e..a2e560c777 100644
--- a/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py
+++ b/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@ class ScheduleItem:
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
 class ScheduleContext:
-  buf_uops: Dict[Buffer, UOp] = field(default_factory=dict)
-  ubuf_metadata: Dict[UOp, Metadata] = field(default_factory=dict)
-  var_vals: Dict[Variable, int] = field(default_factory=dict)
+  buf_uops: Dict[Buffer, UOp] = field(default_factory=dict)        # this maps Buffers to BUFFER uops
+  ubuf_metadata: Dict[UOp, Metadata] = field(default_factory=dict) # this maps BUFFER uops to Metadata
+  var_vals: Dict[Variable, int] = field(default_factory=dict)      # this maps a BIND's DEFINE_VAR to its value
 
 def to_uop(buf:LazyBuffer, ctx:ScheduleContext, cache:Dict[LazyBuffer, UOp]) -> UOp:
   if (r:=cache.get(buf)) is not None: return r
@@ -237,10 +237,12 @@ break_sched = PatternMatcher([(UPat.load(b:=UPat.var("b"), UPat(), UPat.store(b,
 @track_rewrites(named=True)
 def create_schedule_with_vars(outs:List[LazyBuffer]) -> Tuple[List[ScheduleItem], Dict[Variable, int]]:
   if len(outs:=dedup(x.base for x in outs if x.realized is None and x.base.op is not MetaOps.CONST)) == 0: return [], {}
-  store_groups, lazybufs_to_realize, assigns = get_realizes(outs)
+  # create the big graph
   ctx = ScheduleContext()
   cache: Dict[LazyBuffer, UOp] = {}
   big_graph = UOp.sink(*(to_uop(x, ctx, cache) for x in outs))
+  # get realizes
+  store_groups, lazybufs_to_realize, assigns = get_realizes(outs)
   # split realizes into small graphs
   graph_rewrite(big_graph, break_sched, realizes:={(u:=ctx.buf_uops[b]):u for b in lazybufs_to_realize})
   assigned = {ubuf for x in assigns if (ubuf:=ctx.buf_uops.get(x.buffer)) is not None}