Seems like many people here haven't actually read Linus's specific thoughts on AVX-512, and are accusing him of rejecting SIMD entirely or the usefulness of FP

Seems like many people here haven't actually read Linus's specific thoughts on AVX-512, and are accusing him of rejecting SIMD entirely or the usefulness of FP performance entirely. This is not an accurate representation of his position and he singles out AVX-512 differently from SSE/AVX/AVX2. Here is a link to the thread directly from Linus explaining his position on MMX/SSE, AVX/AVX2, AVX512. His complaints on AVX512 are both about fragmentation and regressing from the learned lessons from their prior generations. And he also looks to NEON and SVE2 and suggesting ARM looks seems much saner to him: "So just as a bystander, I'm looking at AVX512, and I'm looking at SVE2, and I'm going "AVX512 really is nasty, isn't it"?"" https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=193189&curpostid=193248 https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=193189&curpost...