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The inference engine flood.. but where's the quality?

So many inference engines keep on popping up - and they are always faster and "better" than llama.cpp. And there I go. Spend countless hours to try them out, being first amazed by the 1.5 - 3x speed ups as promised. Just to find out that when taken into real use, they fail. Today I experimented wit…

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  1. 2026-11-07 20:41 · r/LocalLLM
    The inference engine flood.. but where's the quality?

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