AVX-512 can benefit the average Joe, it appears.

    • dev_null@lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      It's handwritten assembly as opposed to bytecode generated by a compiler, from handwritten higher level language.

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zip
      hexagon
      M
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      5 hours ago

      It's about code optimization and efficiency. Most assembly code these days just relies on compilers for optimization as hand optimizing is extremely time-consuming work.

      • propter_hog [any, any]
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        2 hours ago

        To add to this, it's also very easy and very likely to write assembly that has zero speedup or even significant slowdown versus what the compiler will write.