[janwas]

To be clear, "better abstractions" here seems to mean macros for assembly language. To each their own.

What bothers me is advocating for this, or denigrating more generally useful alternatives, without mentioning the very narrow niche where this sits.

Video codecs only change every few years. This makes it more worthwhile/feasible to spend eng time on a few kernels.

Even then, not supporting SVE (you don't, right?) gives less incentive for the Arm CPU ecosystem to invest in it, helping keeping us stuck in the NEON local minimum. Not ideal :/