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Shouzheng LiuandGitHub 417a85a001 metal: minor q4 optimization and reduce code size (#2248)
* metal: use uint16_t instead of uint8_t.

Apple GPU doesn't like uint8_t. For every operation on uint8_t
the gpu need to copy the uint8_t to an empty 16 bit register, then
it can issue other instructions.

For the matrix-vector multiplication kernel only, we observed a
340~350 GB/s memory read speed on M1 Max after this commit, which is
very close to the reported hardware limit.

* metal: update rms_norm kernel

This commit double the speed of rms_norm operations by using 512 threads
per threadgroup, combining with SIMD primitives to minimize the need for
thread group barriers.

* metal: use template to reduce size

Revert modifications on block_q4_0 and block_q4_1.
2023-07-20 13:32:22 +03:00