comparing models without fooling yourself: early impressions

[benchplease]

Did a bit of testing and thought I'd post the result here.

I tried this with Mistral using MLX on mini PC. The headline result was better than I expected, but token cost still ended up being the limiting factor.

Nothing scientific here, just practical notes from a real setup.

[cacheline]

Tried to reproduce it just now. The issue went away once I changed one setting and restarted the stack cleanly. The main thing that moved was latency, not quality.