BREAKING
'mac code' runs 35B model locally
0B
params
0GB
Mac mini RAM
0tok/s
speed
How flash-paging works
1Pin attention in RAM
2Stream FFN from SSD
3Load only active experts
4~5.5GB RAM used
IQ2_M vs Flash Streaming speed
IQ2_M30
Q4 Stream5.4
27B Stream0.18
Trade-offs developers cite
Upsides
35B on a $600 Mac mini
Keeps full 4-bit quality
Constraints
Flash mode 0.18 tok/s
Needs mmap and pre-split
Repo just published, more tests ahead
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