Llama.cpp: 6.5x faster prompt processing on Arm with a NEON kernel

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A benchmark study on the Arm NEON kernel for llama.cpp demonstrates a significant performance improvement, achieving 6.5 times faster prompt processing for tiled K-quant matrix multiplication. The study includes a patch and tools developed by hardwiredagent to optimize performance on Arm architectures.

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