Efrain Garay

Solutions architect. I measure systems, networks, low-level work and AI models on my own machines, and publish the numbers with the failures included.

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Efrain Garay

Oct 18

ComfyUI vs Forge on a 16 GB GPU: a tie on SDXL, ComfyUI twice as fast when the model does not fit

#stablediffusion #ai #gpu #benchmark

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Efrain Garay

Oct 18

NVFP4 vs FP8 vs GGUF on a 16 GB Ada GPU: NVFP4 decodes 2.3x faster and ties BF16 on GSM8K

#llm #machinelearning #gpu #benchmark

2 min read

Efrain Garay

Oct 14

Kandinsky 6.0 on a 16 GB GPU: the official recipe runs out of memory, and only the 29B model passed my Spanish test

#ai #machinelearning #gpu #benchmark

2 min read

Efrain Garay

Oct 10

Qwen-Image 2.1 on 16 GB of VRAM, quantized to NF4: a real benchmark against FLUX

#stablediffusion #machinelearning #benchmarks #python

2 min read

Efrain Garay

Oct 7

Strands Decider 2B vs LLM as a judge: a keyword regex tied the 2B

#llm #machinelearning #benchmarks #python

1 min read

Efrain Garay

Sep 28

Wild beats mold linking Rust 20 times out of 20, and in release the linker is no longer the bottleneck

#rust #linkers #benchmarks #performance

1 min read

Efrain Garay

Sep 28

TabPFN and TabICL against tuned XGBoost: the model that does not train won on fourteen tables out of fourteen

#machinelearning #benchmarks #datascience #python

1 min read

Efrain Garay

Sep 28

Rust Coreutils 0.12 vs GNU 9.12: almost everything works the same, starting a process costs nearly 3x more

#rust #linux #benchmarks #performance

1 min read

Efrain Garay

Sep 28

Your architecture diagram is lying: I tested both ways of writing it as code

#architecture #plantuml #devops #tools

1 min read

Efrain Garay

Sep 10

Don't put getaddrinfo on your proxy's hot path

#rust #programming #webdev #opensource

2 min read

Efrain Garay

Sep 6

pg_anon caught 1 of my 8 PII columns. My schema isn't in English.

#postgres #database #security #programming

3 min read

Efrain Garay

Aug 21

I translated DOOM from C to Rust in 23 seconds, then used AI for what it is good at

#showdev #rust #programming #ai

3 min read

Efrain Garay

Aug 20

Go 1.27's SIMD ties with NumPy until the data fits in cache

#go #performance #programming #python

3 min read

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ComfyUI vs Forge on a 16 GB GPU: a tie on SDXL, ComfyUI twice as fast when the model does not fit

Want to connect with Efrain Garay?

NVFP4 vs FP8 vs GGUF on a 16 GB Ada GPU: NVFP4 decodes 2.3x faster and ties BF16 on GSM8K

Kandinsky 6.0 on a 16 GB GPU: the official recipe runs out of memory, and only the 29B model passed my Spanish test

Qwen-Image 2.1 on 16 GB of VRAM, quantized to NF4: a real benchmark against FLUX

Strands Decider 2B vs LLM as a judge: a keyword regex tied the 2B

Wild beats mold linking Rust 20 times out of 20, and in release the linker is no longer the bottleneck

TabPFN and TabICL against tuned XGBoost: the model that does not train won on fourteen tables out of fourteen

Rust Coreutils 0.12 vs GNU 9.12: almost everything works the same, starting a process costs nearly 3x more

Your architecture diagram is lying: I tested both ways of writing it as code

Don't put getaddrinfo on your proxy's hot path

pg_anon caught 1 of my 8 PII columns. My schema isn't in English.

I translated DOOM from C to Rust in 23 seconds, then used AI for what it is good at

Go 1.27's SIMD ties with NumPy until the data fits in cache