llama.cpp b9966 for sm-tensor
Summary
llama.cpp b9966 introduces a fix for the -sm tensor mode that caches regex patterns, eliminating 29 recompilations per tensor per token on the decode thread, resulting in significantly reduced CPU overhead.
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