Faster Alternatives to llama.cpp for Local LLM Inference?

PoshoZen11 · reddit · 2026-08-24

Seeking faster or more optimized alternatives to llama.cpp for running local LLMs on a Mac. The user found Ollama slow and improved performance with llama.cpp, but wants to explore options like better inference engines, GPU/CPU optimizations, KV-cache, offloading, and speculative decoding. Quantization suggestions are excluded from the request.

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