Re:Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration
by chrismorgan on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @10:11AM
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> Honest question, as I don't follow rust, does the cargo package manager handle non-rust dependencies?
You can run arbitrary code at build time, and you can link to external libraries. For the likes of C libraries, you’ll typically bind to the library and either require that it be installed locally already, or bundle its source and compile it yourself (most commonly with the `cc` crate), or support both techniques (probably via a feature flag). The libsqlite3-sys crate is a fairly complex example of offering both, if you happen to want to look at an actual build.rs and Cargo.toml and the associated files.
> [pip’s] major version number has gone from like 9.xx to 23.xx in like the past two or three years.
It skipped from 10.0.1 to 18.0 in mid-2018, and the “major” part has since corresponded to the year it was released in, minus 2000. (Look through the table of contents in https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/ to see all this easily.)
You can run arbitrary code at build time, and you can link to external libraries. For the likes of C libraries, you’ll typically bind to the library and either require that it be installed locally already, or bundle its source and compile it yourself (most commonly with the `cc` crate), or support both techniques (probably via a feature flag). The libsqlite3-sys crate is a fairly complex example of offering both, if you happen to want to look at an actual build.rs and Cargo.toml and the associated files.
> [pip’s] major version number has gone from like 9.xx to 23.xx in like the past two or three years.
It skipped from 10.0.1 to 18.0 in mid-2018, and the “major” part has since corresponded to the year it was released in, minus 2000. (Look through the table of contents in https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/ to see all this easily.)