grammars: update performance gotchas w/ repetition advice

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ochafik 2024-04-20 01:25:58 +01:00
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@ -102,4 +102,4 @@ Grammars currently have performance gotchas (see https://github.com/ggerganov/ll
A common pattern is to allow repetitions of a pattern `x` up to N times.
While semantically correct, the syntax `x? x? x?.... x?` (with N repetitions) will result in extremely slow inference. Instead, you can write `(x (x (x ... (x)?...)?)?)?` (w/ N-deep nesting)
While semantically correct, the syntax `x? x? x?.... x?` (with N repetitions) may result in extremely slow sampling. Instead, you can write `x{0,N}` (or `(x (x (x ... (x)?...)?)?)?` w/ N-deep nesting in earlier llama.cpp versions).