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Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now

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1311 points msoad | 1 comments | 31 Mar 23 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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jart ◴[31 Mar 23 21:02 UTC] No.35393615[source]▶
Author here. For additional context, please read https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/638#discu... The loading time performance has been a huge win for usability, and folks have been having the most wonderful reactions after using this change. But we don't have a compelling enough theory yet to explain the RAM usage miracle. So please don't get too excited just yet! Yes things are getting more awesome, but like all things in science a small amount of healthy skepticism is warranted.
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intelVISA ◴[31 Mar 23 22:03 UTC] No.35394288[source]▶
Didn't expect to see two titans today: ggerganov AND jart. Can ya'll slow down you make us mortals look bad :')

Seeing such clever use of mmap makes me dread to imagine how much Python spaghetti probably tanks OpenAI's and other "big ML" shops' infra when they should've trusted in zero copy solutions.

Perhaps SWE is dead after all, but LLMs didn't kill it...

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gct ◴[01 Apr 23 02:04 UTC] No.35396298[source]▶
This doesn't even seem that clever, just regular ol' use of mmap where there was none before. Wonder what other performance is being left on the floor. I'm convinced entire power plants could be retired if the world stopped using python unfortunately.
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ChatPGT ◴[01 Apr 23 02:35 UTC] No.35396471[source]▶
>> I'm convinced entire power plants could be retired if the world stopped using python unfortunately.

On the other hand, many business and professionals wouldn't exist :)

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sn_master ◴[01 Apr 23 03:23 UTC] No.35396778[source]▶
I can't find a single good argument for Python based on merit that's not at least 15+ years dated and stems from "But Google is using it".

It's not the easiest syntax, not the best compiler support, performance and threading is a joke. The entire language is based on hype back from the time when the only two mainstream languages were C++ and Java.

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codexon ◴[01 Apr 23 04:22 UTC] No.35397110[source]▶
There were plenty of other languages competing with python for the same niche such as perl, ruby, js, php etc... Python is superior to all of those just for syntax alone, it is easier and cleaner to both read and write.
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eru ◴[01 Apr 23 05:11 UTC] No.35397342[source]▶
That might be true, but it seems to generally fall under the category of 'relevant 15+ years ago', doesn't it?
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1. rybar ◴[01 Apr 23 05:36 UTC] No.35397459[source]▶
How do you qualify relevancy? Your own personal bubble and bias? Adoption and usage?

Pull requests and stars on github? That might be a start.

https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2022/4 https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/stars/2022/4

Though you may say but but alltheprivaterepos! Then I challenge you to back up what you mean by relevance and prove python is a category of relevant 15+ years ago.