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A llama.cpp PR makes Q2_0 3.0–3.6x faster on x86 CPUs, 8B decode goes 2.39 → 8.20 tok/s
I was going through the current llama.cpp CPU PRs and #26348 stood out because this isn't the usual +5% kernel optimization. It adds an x86 VNNI implementation for the Q2_0 × Q8_0 dot product, and the author's controlled CPU-only benchmarks show roughly 3–3.6x higher throughput across Bonsai models from 1.7B to 27B. Se