Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B @ Q4 or Gemma 4 12B @ Q8?
Summary
User asks for advice on choosing between quantized Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B at Q4 and Gemma 4 12B at Q8 for local codebase work on a 32GB unified memory setup.
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