AnalysisDevelopersAugust 20, 2026

AVX2: Speed up large batch size prompt processing of IQ models

Draft PR: IQ quants are "particularly slow" on CPU at large batch sizes, the workload seen in imatrix and perplexity runs. Speed is measured via PPL on Qwen3.6-27B and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with an EPYC 9654 using 24 threads and --chunks 50.

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