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by throwaway92394 1478 days ago
Well I mean this article is demoing a 28% improvement (if I did my math right) for json parsing.

Sure AVX-512 is only applicable to specific workloads, and even many of those workloads the cost/opportunity of optimizing for AVX-512 might not be worth it. But there clearly ARE usecases that would benefit, and it might be worth it for more consumer applications to optimize for AVX-512 - but only if it can be used.

The way I see it is that the benefit of optimizing for AVX-512 is far higher if it becomes normal for consumer CPUs to have it. A 28% improvement is pretty decent, but it's only worth implementing if enough people can utilize it.