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Why Local LLMs Don't Need C++ or Python: Building a 15MB Native AOT Inference Engine in .NET 10
Community description: Bare-Metal LLM Inference in Pure C#: Bypassing CUDA Toolkits and Native C++ DLLs The...
Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | Ian Cowley
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Glacier. Inference runs direct memory-mapped GGUF models in pure C# . NET 10 across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel silicon without external C++ binaries. │ ├─ Pure C# Bare-Metal SASS Engine (Direct P/Invoke nvcuda. dll) │ │ ├─ Bare-Metal Direct3D 12 Compute (HLSL Wave32 via Vortice. D3D12) │ 1. Bypassing CUDA Runtime Bloat via Direct Driver SASS Typical CUDA execution routes instructions through cudart64. dll and cublas64. dll. Glacier completely circumvents the CUDA runtime layer.
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