Mac users can now run SDXL workflows roughly 25% faster in ComfyUI

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I honestly don’t know how to announce this without sounding like I’m promoting myself, because that’s not really the point. I just want Mac users to know that SDXL in ComfyUI can now run noticeably faster on Apple Silicon. On my Mac Studio M1 Max I’m seeing around 25% shorter generation times compared to my usual PyTorch/MPS workflows. I’m not a programmer. I’m a musician, and this whole thing started because I couldn't find MLX nodes for SDXL. With a lot of help from Codex, I ended up building SDMLX, a ComfyUI node suite that ports a bunch of SDXL workflows to Apple’s MLX layer.