Merge mainline llama.cpp (#3)

* Merging mainline - WIP

* Merging mainline - WIP

AVX2 and CUDA appear to work.
CUDA performance seems slightly (~1-2%) lower as it is so often
the case with llama.cpp/ggml after some "improvements" have been made.

* Merging mainline - fix Metal

* Remove check

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Co-authored-by: Iwan Kawrakow <iwan.kawrakow@gmail.com>

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+# Install pre-built version of llama.cpp
+
+## Homebrew
+
+On Mac and Linux, the homebrew package manager can be used via
+
+```sh
+brew install llama.cpp
+```
+The formula is automatically updated with new `llama.cpp` releases. More info: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/7668
+
+## Nix
+
+On Mac and Linux, the Nix package manager can be used via
+
+```sh
+nix profile install nixpkgs#llama-cpp
+```
+For flake enabled installs.
+
+Or
+
+```sh
+nix-env --file '<nixpkgs>' --install --attr llama-cpp
+```
+
+For non-flake enabled installs.
+
+This expression is automatically updated within the [nixpkgs repo](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-24.05/pkgs/by-name/ll/llama-cpp/package.nix#L164).
+
+## Flox
+
+On Mac and Linux, Flox can be used to install llama.cpp within a Flox environment via
+
+```sh
+flox install llama-cpp
+```
+
+Flox follows the nixpkgs build of llama.cpp.