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		astrange on April 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Using mmap to make LLaMA load faster Huh, maybe I was thinking of "you can use floating point in the kernel". That doesn't work in every kernel because they don't want to bother saving/restoring the extra registers.

saagarjha on April 6, 2023 [–]

To be entirely honest I'm not sure why the kernel doesn't use better routines here, I think on ARM at least it saves the entire NEON state on context switch…

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