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Your Quantized LLM Is Not Slow Because of the Quantization

calendar_today September 1, 2026 person Pier-Jean MALANDRINO domain dzone

The Symptom I spent months building a 2-bit quantization scheme for Qwen3. The model went from 8 GB to 2.6 GB, a 4.5x reduction. Then I measured throughput.

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