* Softcap: WIP
Fuses scale + tanh + scale as used for softcaping in some
models.
Just CPU for now. ~1.4% for PP-512 on Gemma2-9b, no effect on TG.
Somewhat surprisingly the improvement does not increase as I
go to longer contexts. Gemma2 does softcap on K*Q, which grows
quadratically with context length, so I would have thought
the benefit from fusing scale, tanh, scale would increase.
But no, no luck.
* softcap: CUDA
* softcap: CUDA
~1% speedup for Gemma2-9b
* softcap: Metal and NEON
About 1% speedup.
* Simdified gelu
Gives ~1% speedup for Gemma2-9b prompt processing on AVX512/AVX2.
It looks like the gelu operation is memory bound on my CPU's
after SIMD-ifying it. By not using the 128 kb gelu lookup table
we gain a small advantage.
On the M2-Max the lookup table is slightly faster than the SIMD
version, so left the lookup table for ARM_NEON.
* softcap, tanh: avoid NaNs for large arguments (AVX2, AVX512)
Not that I have encountered this in practice, but just to be sure.
This does it for AVX512 and AVX2, still need a guard for ARM_NEON.
* llama-bench: add ability to turn off warmup runs
So we don't need to wait forever on, e.g., benchmarks involving
long contexts.
* softcap, tanh: avoid NaNs for large arguments (NEON)
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Co-authored-by: Iwan Kawrakow <iwan.kawrakow@gmail.com>
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