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A 341 GB DeepSeek on a 128 GB Mac: 2x decode and first token in 0.2 s instead of 2.5 s, streaming from two SSDs, same tokens as stock ds4. The trick wasn't a kernel: I made the codebase small enough for an agent

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  1. 2026-10-07 19:25 · r/LocalLLM
    A 341 GB DeepSeek on a 128 GB Mac: 2x decode and first token in 0.2 s instead of 2.5 s, streaming from two SSDs, same tokens as stock ds4. The trick wasn't a kernel: I made the codebase small enough for an agent

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