Building a zero-dependency C inference engine for BitNet (1.58-bit); achieves 36 tok/s on a Xeon CPU
Read the original at old.reddit.com→Over the past few months I have been building a CPU-first inference engine from scratch in pure C99 (no Python, no CUDA, no BLAS, just GCC and make). The focus has been running 1.58-bit ternary models natively...
Original headline: "Building a zero-dependency C inference engine for BitNet (1.58-bit) - lessons from hitting 36 tok/s on a Xeon CPU"
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