[azalemeth]

Speaking as someone who does scientific computing all day long, in part with FEM simulations, even for me AVX512 isn't usually worth it in terms of wall-clock time.

[sgillen]

Speaking as someone else who does scientific computing all day, taking away vectorized operations would kill my performance completely.

[CamperBob2]

Yes, it's pretty much useless, and Linus's reasoning will guarantee that things stay that way.