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When LLM Inference on CPU Beats Waiting for the GPU

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mini-vllm-rs is a single-node LLM inference engine I built in Rust on top of Candle for macOS. It can run CPU and Metal GPU backends concurrently, routing whole requests between them. My first request routing benchmark favored sending almost everything to GPU: the fastest policies assigned it 11 of…

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  1. 2026-10-24 05:52 · DEV Community — AI
    When LLM Inference on CPU Beats Waiting for the GPU

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