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​PSA: your token preprocessing is why your local setup feels slow

real talk for a second... why are we all blaming quantization or vram leaks when data preprocessing is the actual silent bottleneck? ​been profiling my local setup lately and realized pure python loops during token prep are literally slaughtering performance. your CPU is just sitting there stuck on…

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  1. 2026-09-28 05:02 · r/LocalLLM
    ​PSA: your token preprocessing is why your local setup feels slow

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