Age of the bespoke engines?

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llm-inference open-source llama.cpp tool-fragmentation gpu-benchmarking performance

Summary

作者讨论了LLM推理引擎生态日益碎片化的现象，从早期依赖llama.cpp转向各种fork项目（如Niffler、Strata、Avalon、Basalt等），并质疑llama.cpp为何在性能上落后于许多独立开发者的作品。

When I started, and for some time, llama.cpp was the answer. Now, it seems like llama.cpp is the new ollama. It's slow and out of date and just behind. There was Ninfee for those for whom that applied. Then strata came out... And that was an unimaginable upgrade. How is llama so far behind? Now every day someone has their own forked engine that claims even better numbers. I already maxed out my token budget on Claude for the week and have my GPUs all running benchmarks so I'm waiting a few days, but I'll be trying Avalon to see if that lives up to the hype for my machine. Then there's basalt. There's beatleguese? It's kind of a mess. Innovation is great but it's better when the effort all goes in one direction and isn't spread into a thousand fractures of one-off projects. And yes, my critique of llama.cpp is a bit overstated. I still use it for e.g. 27b runs. But... I've now verified that flash next is both better and faster than 27b so I'm struggling to find a reason to use it. :/ Why are all these solo devs pulling something off for weeks that llama can't figure out?
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