The gap was MUCH larger in the past, but in my tests, oMLX and llama.cpp are now very similar (within 10%) in both prompt processing and generation speed. GGUF ecosystem provides a better selection of quants, in my experience Unsloth ones are excellent.
replyI thought the main advantage of oMLX is it's less likely to invalidate the KV cache when working with coding agents, which is key when working on a Mac because of the slower prompt processing.
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