Iterating proc.stdout directly blocks until the stream closes, so a sd-cli that hangs
without producing output (or without closing stdout) would never reach proc.wait and the
wall-clock timeout was silently bypassed. Drain stdout on a daemon thread and wait on the
PROCESS, so the main thread always enforces the timeout and kills a hung process (which
closes the pipe and ends the reader). Add a test that times out even when stdout blocks,
and make the no-binary test hermetic so a host-installed sd-cli can't leak in.
Adds the CPU / Apple-Silicon tier of the two-engine strategy, mirroring the
chat backend's llama.cpp shell-out. Diffusers stays the default on CUDA / ROCm
/ XPU; this covers the hardware diffusers serves poorly, consuming the same
split GGUF assets Studio already curates.
- sd_cpp_args.py: pure sd-cli command builder. Maps the family to its
text-encoder flag (Z-Image Qwen3 to --llm, Qwen-Image to --qwen2vl, FLUX.1
CLIP-L + T5), and the diffusers memory policy (none/group/model/sequential)
to sd.cpp's offload flags (--offload-to-cpu / --clip-on-cpu / --vae-on-cpu /
--vae-tiling / --diffusion-fa), so one user knob drives both engines.
- sd_cpp_engine.py: SdCppEngine over a located sd-cli. find_sd_cpp_binary()
with the same precedence as the llama finder (env override, then the Studio
install root, then in-tree, then PATH), an is_available/version probe, and a
one-shot subprocess generate that streams progress and returns the PNG.
runtime_env() prepends the binary's directory to the platform library path
so a prebuilt's bundled libstable-diffusion.so resolves.
select_diffusion_engine() is the pure routing decision (GPU backends to
diffusers, CPU/MPS to native when present).
- install_sd_cpp_prebuilt.py: resolve + download the per-host prebuilt
(macOS-arm64/Metal, Linux x86_64 CPU, Vulkan/ROCm/Windows variants) into the
Studio install root. resolve_release_asset() is a pure, unit-tested
host-to-asset matrix.
- scripts/sd_cpp_smoke.py: end-to-end native generation harness.
Tests (CPU-only, subprocess/filesystem stubbed): 49 new across args, engine,
routing, runtime env, and the installer resolver. Full diffusion suite 166
passing.
Verified on a B200 box: built sd-cli (CUDA) and the prebuilt (CPU) both
generate Z-Image-Turbo Q4_K end to end through SdCppEngine: balanced (group
offload, 5.0s gen), low_vram (full CPU offload + VAE tiling, 13.4s), and the
dynamically-linked CPU prebuilt (50.4s on CPU), all producing coherent images.
