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Choosing an On-Device Inference Engine in 2026: It's Not Just llama.cpp Anymore

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Choosing an On-Device Inference Engine in 2026: It's Not Just llama.cpp Anymore Running models locally used to mean one thing: llama.cpp, some GGUF quantization, done. Fine for text generation. But the moment you run a vision language model on device, or need fast prefill for long contexts, the eng…

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  1. 2026-10-23 06:26 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Choosing an On-Device Inference Engine in 2026: It's Not Just llama.cpp Anymore

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