Daniel Bevenius 3bcfeb700f cmake : add PCH and unity build to improve build times (#28091)
* scripts : add initial profiling script (wip)

* src : add precompile headers (PCH) for models.h

* common : add common.h as PCH

* ggml : add PCH for ggml-impl.h

* mtmd : use PCH for models.h

* scripts : add script to build with Server/Tools/Tests

* server : add PCH for common.h

* docs: add profiling progress notes (wip)

* ggml : add exclude for GCC + SVE on ARM

Refs: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/runs/33393906061/job/99493756214?pr=28091

* ggml : attempt to fix use of std::hardware_destructive_inference_size

Refs: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/actions/runs/33396221677/job/99501265689?pr=28091

* squash! ggml : attempt to fix use of std::hardware_destructive_inference_size

Add a version check for GCC 12 to conditionally apply the `-Winterference-size`
pragma.

* editorconfig : exclude profiling reports dir

This directory will not be included in the merge later and this commit
can be ignore at that point. Just fixing to keep CI happy.

* ggml : skip PCH for gcc on non-x86 architectures

* tests : add PCH for peg-parser/tests.h

There are 7 peg-parser tests that can share one PCH instead of then each
parsing the full tests.h.

* common : add PCH for chat.h

* docs : update linux build profiling full results

Just updating after a number of PCH additions. These are not exact
figures and will vary a bit from run to run, but they give a general idea
of the performance impact of PCH.

* cmake : introduce unity build for models

This commit introduces a unity build for the models to improve
compilation time.

The improvements were roughly the following:
```console
+------------------------+-----+------------+------------+------------+
| Build                  | TUs | Frontend   | Backend    | Total      |
+------------------------+-----+------------+------------+------------+
| Full,    master        | 396 |   811.0 s  |   692.2 s  | 1,503.2 s  |
| Full,    with PCH      | 405 |   380.0 s  |   664.7 s  | 1,044.7 s  |
| Full,    with PCH + UB | 264 |   357.7 s  |   635.7 s  |   993.4 s  |
+------------------------+-----+------------+------------+------------+

TU   = Translation Unit.
Full = includes Server, Tools, and Tests.
PCH  = precompiled headers.
UB   = unity build for models.
```

* docs : update linux profiling table with unitiy build results

* docs : update mac profiling results to include unity build [no ci]

* docs: remove profiling reports

* scripts : merge build profile scripts into one script

I was lazy before and just copied the first script to enable Tests,
Server, and Tools. This now merges them into a single script.

* Revert "editorconfig : exclude profiling reports dir" [no ci]

This reverts commit 2922a12118.

* src : rename ggml_view_2d_slice to gemma3n_view_2d_slice

This is to be consistent with the rename in gemma4.cpp which was
required to avoid a name clash.

* cmake : add build profile script for windows [no ci]

This commit adds a port of the scripts/build-profile.sh script to
windows powershell.

This was developed on Windows on ARM but should work on X64 as well but
needs to be tested there as well.
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llama.cpp

llama

Quick start

A few options to get llama.cpp installed on your machine:

Once installed:

# Download and run a model directly from Hugging Face
llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF

# Launch OpenAI-compatible API server
llama serve -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF
VLM session with `llama cli` VLM session with llama cli Built-in web UI against `llama serve` running Qwen 3.6 Built-in web UI against llama serve

Description

The main goal of llama.cpp is to enable LLM (and VLM) inference with minimal setup and state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of hardware - locally and in the cloud.

  • Plain C/C++ implementation without any dependencies
  • Apple silicon is a first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate and Metal frameworks
  • AVX, AVX2, AVX512 and AMX support for x86 architectures
  • RVV, ZVFH, ZFH, ZICBOP and ZIHINTPAUSE support for RISC-V architectures
  • 1.5-bit, 2-bit, 3-bit, 4-bit, 5-bit, 6-bit, and 8-bit integer quantization for faster inference and reduced memory use
  • Custom CUDA kernels for running LLMs on NVIDIA GPUs (support for AMD GPUs via HIP and Moore Threads GPUs via MUSA)
  • Vulkan and SYCL backend support
  • CPU+GPU hybrid inference to partially accelerate models larger than the total VRAM capacity

The llama.cpp project is build on top of the ggml library.

Supported backends

Backend Target devices
BLAS All
BLIS All
CANN Ascend NPU
CUDA Nvidia GPU
HIP AMD GPU
Hexagon Snapdragon
IBM zDNN IBM Z & LinuxONE
MUSA Moore Threads GPU
Metal Apple Silicon
OpenCL Adreno GPU
OpenVINO [In Progress] Intel CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs
RPC All
SYCL Intel GPU
VirtGPU VirtGPU APIR
Vulkan GPU
WebGPU All
ZenDNN AMD CPU

Documentation

Tools

Development

Contributing

  • Contributors can open PRs
  • Collaborators will be invited based on contributions
  • Maintainers can push to branches in the llama.cpp repo and merge PRs into the master branch
  • Any help with managing issues, PRs and projects is very appreciated!
  • Read the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information

Acknowledgements

  • yhirose/cpp-httplib - Single-header HTTP server, used by llama-server - MIT license
  • nothings/stb - Single-header image format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • nlohmann/json - Single-header JSON library, used by various tools/examples - MIT License
  • mackron/miniaudio - Single-header audio format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
  • sheredom/subprocess.h - Single-header process launching solution for C and C++ - Public domain
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