> I don't think anyone ever said that. Yeah, Torvalds said pretty much exactly that, in his typically boisterous form. That it is "only useful in special cas

> I don't think anyone ever said that. Yeah, Torvalds said pretty much exactly that, in his typically boisterous form. That it is "only useful in special cases", "only exists to make Intel look better on benchmarks", and that "the transistors would be better spent elsewhere". https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-Torvalds-On-AVX-512 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-To...