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Speed on the CPU: SIMD, threads, cache layout and profiling

A mental model for making inference kernels fast: measure bandwidth first, vectorise with SIMD, split rows across threads until memory saturates, lay out weights for sequential access and fused dequantisation, and profile before optimising. Grounded in the measurements from the previous lesson.

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You have a correct engine (forward pass). Making it fast is a measurement discipline, not a bag of tricks.

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