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ik_llama.cpp Fork: 26x Faster Prompt Processing on Blackwell

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Real-world benchmarks on RTX PRO 4000 running Qwen 3.5 27B Q4_K_M show 26x faster prompt processing versus mainline llama.cpp. The bottleneck in agentic coding is long context prefill, and this fork eliminates it. Source

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Qwen3.8-27B's open weights slipped their window and the repo is still an empty placeholder.
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