Does it matter? It's still a reference encoder. AFAIK, the AV1 bitstream is barely frozen. Is he talking about the working model HEVC encoder right after they f

Does it matter? It's still a reference encoder. AFAIK, the AV1 bitstream is barely frozen. Is he talking about the working model HEVC encoder right after they froze it, or the final reference encoder before people started working on hardware implementations? The Current AV1 reference being some amount slower than some HEVC reference says nothing in itself about room for improvement.