A note of thanks · Packaging

Bonsai 2

Bonsai sharpened our habit of separating weight-file size from peak runtime memory and capability retained. A fair same-Mac comparison remains a proposed exercise.

01 · The idea

What stayed with us

Ternary representation, packing overhead, activation transforms, kernel support, artifact size, runtime memory, and capability retention can rank a model differently depending on the deployment constraint.

02 · The local translation

What we did with it

The retained exercise is a same-Mac comparison sheet covering revisions, task gates, peak RAM, time to first token, prefill, decode throughput, and total task latency.

03 · The boundary

Where the comparison stops

File size is not peak runtime memory, and retention relative to a source model does not establish frontier parity.