Woodcock speeds up Qwen3-1.7B nearly 3x on M4 Max
A permissively licensed drop-in alternative to Eagle 4 matters because Eagle's licensing can block commercial local-inference deployments. Developers running small models on Apple Silicon can benchmark Woodcock against their current speculative decoding setup to see if the 2.5x gain holds on their workloads. It competes directly with Eagle 4 rather than a hosted service.
