splish
Splish: an unofficial fork of Inco's Splash, tuned for Apple M5 GPUs. Up to 1.5x faster (about 1.25x at one request) on Qwen3.8-27B. Apache-2.0
Details
- External ID
- 1388980448
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- splish
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3866256725595696
- Tags
- apple-silicon, llm-inference, m5, metal, qwen, speculative-decoding
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- gpu compute and acceleration tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- gpu inference engine fork for apple silicon
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Optimizing LLM inference engines and writing custom GPU kernels tuned for specific Apple Silicon architectures requires low-level systems programming and deep GPU microarchitecture expertise.
What it would actually take: Building an optimized inference fork requires expertise in Apple Metal, Metal Performance Shaders (MPS), or low-level C++/Rust GPU kernel writing. The developer must profile memory bandwidth, threadgroup memory usage, SIMD-group matrix operations, and execution pipelines on Apple Silicon chips. Vibe coding cannot generate novel, highly tuned GPU assembly or low-level kernel optimizations without hallucinating or degrading performance.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #126 of 188 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
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