diff --git a/test/unit/test_attention.py b/test/unit/test_attention.py
index e47b74fbe4..99cf1c13ce 100644
--- a/test/unit/test_attention.py
+++ b/test/unit/test_attention.py
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 import unittest
 from tinygrad import Tensor, dtypes, TinyJit, UOp
-from tinygrad.apps.llm import apply_rope
+from tinygrad.apps.llm import apply_rope as apply_rope_new, precompute_freqs_cis
 #from tinygrad.engine.realize import run_schedule
 
+def apply_rope(x:Tensor, start_pos:int):
+  B, H, T, Hd = x.shape
+  precompute_freqs_cis.cache_clear()
+  freqs_cis = precompute_freqs_cis(Hd, start_pos+T)[start_pos:start_pos+T]
+  return apply_rope_new(x, freqs_cis)
+
 # TODO: test_scheduler, but just in uint
 class TestAttention(unittest.TestCase):
   def test_half_qkv_buffers(self):
@@ -39,7 +45,7 @@ class TestAttention(unittest.TestCase):
     prune_size = len(rope_prune.captured.jit_cache)
 
     self.assertGreater(noprune_size, prune_size)
-    self.assertGreaterEqual(noprune_size, 3)
+    self.assertGreaterEqual(noprune_size, 2)
     self.assertEqual(prune_size, 1)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
diff --git a/tinygrad/apps/llm.py b/tinygrad/apps/llm.py
index 1cb78c1dfa..071b1e3ae6 100644
--- a/tinygrad/apps/llm.py
+++ b/tinygrad/apps/llm.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
-import sys, argparse, typing, re, unicodedata, json, uuid, time
+import sys, argparse, typing, re, unicodedata, json, uuid, time, functools
 from tinygrad import Tensor, nn, UOp, TinyJit, getenv
-from tinygrad.helpers import partition, TCPServerWithReuse, HTTPRequestHandler, tqdm, DEBUG, Timing, GlobalCounters
+from tinygrad.helpers import partition, TCPServerWithReuse, HTTPRequestHandler, DEBUG, Timing, GlobalCounters, stderr_log, colored
 
 class SimpleTokenizer:
   def __init__(self, normal_tokens:dict[str, int], special_tokens:dict[str, int]):
@@ -52,15 +52,18 @@ class SimpleTokenizer:
   def decode(self, ids:list[int]) -> str: return b''.join(self._tok2bytes[tid] for tid in ids).decode()
   def role(self, role:str): return self.encode("<|start_header_id|>" + role + "<|end_header_id|>\n\n")
 
-def apply_rope(x:Tensor, start_pos:int|UOp, base:float = 10000.0) -> Tensor:
+@functools.cache
+def precompute_freqs_cis(dim: int, end: int, theta: float = 10000.0) -> Tensor:
+  freqs = 1.0 / (theta ** (Tensor.arange(0, dim, 2)[:(dim // 2)] / dim))
+  freqs = Tensor.arange(end).unsqueeze(dim=1) * freqs.unsqueeze(dim=0)
+  return Tensor.stack(freqs.cos(), freqs.sin(), dim=-1).contiguous()
+
+def apply_rope(x:Tensor, freqs_cis:Tensor) -> Tensor:
   B, H, T, Hd = x.shape
   assert isinstance(Hd, int) and (Hd & 1) == 0, "RoPE requires an even head dimension"
-  half = Hd // 2
-  t_start_pos = start_pos if isinstance(start_pos, int) else Tensor(start_pos)
-  angles = (Tensor.arange(T, dtype="float32") + t_start_pos)[:, None] * (base ** (-(Tensor.arange(half, dtype="float32") / half)))[None, :]
-  # contiguous here allows RoPE to be pruned in the JIT
-  cos, sin = angles.cos().reshape(1, 1, T, half).cast(x.dtype).contiguous(), angles.sin().reshape(1, 1, T, half).cast(x.dtype).contiguous()
-  x_pairs = x.reshape(B, H, T, half, 2)
+  x_pairs     = x.reshape(B, H, T, Hd//2, 2)
+  cos = freqs_cis.reshape(1, 1, T, Hd//2, 2)[..., 0]
+  sin = freqs_cis.reshape(1, 1, T, Hd//2, 2)[..., 1]
   return Tensor.stack(x_pairs[..., 0] * cos - x_pairs[..., 1] * sin,
                       x_pairs[..., 0] * sin + x_pairs[..., 1] * cos, dim=-1).reshape(B, H, T, Hd)
 
@@ -96,8 +99,10 @@ class TransformerBlock:
     k = k.reshape(B, T, self.n_kv_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2)  # (B,KvH,T,Hd)
     v = v.reshape(B, T, self.n_kv_heads, self.head_dim).transpose(1, 2)  # (B,KvH,T,Hd)
 
-    q = apply_rope(q, start_pos)
-    k = apply_rope(k, start_pos)
+    # TODO: make UOp have SupportsIndex
+    freqs_cis = precompute_freqs_cis(self.head_dim, self.max_context)[start_pos:start_pos+T]  # type: ignore
+    q = apply_rope(q, freqs_cis)
+    k = apply_rope(k, freqs_cis)
 
     # TODO: remove these kv cache realizes
     if not hasattr(self, "cache_kv"):
@@ -115,7 +120,8 @@ class TransformerBlock:
 
   def _feed_forward(self, h: Tensor) -> Tensor:
     h_norm = self.ffn_norm(h)
-    gated  = self.ffn_gate(h_norm).silu() * self.ffn_up(h_norm)
+    # TODO: remove the need for this contiguous
+    gated  = self.ffn_gate(h_norm).silu().contiguous() * self.ffn_up(h_norm)
     return h + self.ffn_down(gated)
 
   def __call__(self, x: Tensor, start_pos: int|UOp):
@@ -185,24 +191,27 @@ models = {
 # OPENAI_BASE_URL=http://localhost:11434/v1 OPENAI_API_KEY=ollama uvx --from gpt-command-line gpt
 
 class Handler(HTTPRequestHandler):
+  def log_request(self, code='-', size='-'): pass
   def run_model(self, ids:list[int], model_name:str, include_usage=False):
+    stderr_log(f"{self.path}  {colored('--', 'BLACK')}  in:{len(ids):5d}  {colored('--', 'BLACK')}  ")
     tmpl = {"id":f"chatcmpl-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:24]}", "object":"chat.completion.chunk", "created":int(time.time()), "model":model_name}
     yield {"choices": [{"index":0, "delta":{"role":"assistant","content":""}, "finish_reason":None}], **tmpl}
-    out = []
-    for next_id in tqdm(model.generate(ids), disable=not DEBUG>=1):
+    out: list[int] = []
+    st = time.perf_counter()
+    for next_id in model.generate(ids):
+      if len(out) == 0: stderr_log(f"prefill:{len(ids)/((pt:=time.perf_counter())-st):4.0f} tok/s  {colored('--', 'BLACK')}  ")
       if next_id == eos_id: break
       out.append(next_id)
       yield {"choices": [{"index":0, "delta":{"content":tok.decode([next_id])}, "finish_reason":None}], **tmpl}
     yield {"choices": [{"index":0, "delta":{},"finish_reason":"stop"}], **tmpl}
     if include_usage:
       yield {"choices": [], "usage": {"prompt_tokens": len(ids), "completion_tokens": len(out), "total_tokens": len(ids) + len(out)}, **tmpl}
+    stderr_log(f"out:{len(out):5d}  {colored('--', 'BLACK')}  gen: {len(out)/(time.perf_counter()-pt):4.0f} tok/s\n")
 
   def do_POST(self):
     raw_body = self.rfile.read(int(self.headers.get("Content-Length", "0")))
     body: dict[str, typing.Any] = json.loads(raw_body.decode("utf-8"))
-    if DEBUG >= 1:
-      print(self.path)
-      print(json.dumps(body, indent=2))
+    if DEBUG >= 1: print(json.dumps(body, indent=2))
     if self.path == "/v1/chat/completions":
       # extract tokens
       ids = [bos_id]
diff --git a/tinygrad/helpers.py b/tinygrad/helpers.py
index 905fd08144..324764b296 100644
--- a/tinygrad/helpers.py
+++ b/tinygrad/helpers.py
@@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ def getenv(key:str, default:Any=0): return type(default)(os.getenv(key, default)
 def temp(x:str, append_user:bool=False) -> str:
   return (pathlib.Path(tempfile.gettempdir()) / (f"{x}.{getpass.getuser()}" if append_user else x)).as_posix()
 
+def stderr_log(msg):
+  sys.stderr.write(msg)
+  sys.stderr.flush()
+
 class Context(contextlib.ContextDecorator):
   def __init__(self, **kwargs): self.kwargs = kwargs
   def __enter__(self):