Sorry if I misunderstood your point. > It's not like Intel (or any other vendor) is rolling back progress Performance doesn't stand still so even if they are

Sorry if I misunderstood your point. > It's not like Intel (or any other vendor) is rolling back progress Performance doesn't stand still so even if they are improving, they might have improved more having spend the AVX-512 on something else. And most definitely, larger vector unit does cost you somewhere else.