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26th July 2024 - Link Blog

Did you know about Instruments? (via) Thorsten Ball shows how the macOS Instruments app (installed as part of Xcode) can be used to run a CPU profiler against any application - not just code written in Swift/Objective C.

I tried this against a Python process running LLM executing a Llama 3.1 prompt with my new llm-gguf plugin and captured this:

Screenshot of a deep nested stack trace showing _PyFunction_Vectorcall from python3.10 calling PyCFuncPtr_call _ctypes.cpython-310-darwin.so which then calls ggml_ methods in libggml.dylib

Posted 26th July 2024 at 1:06 pm

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