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by jamal-kumar 12 days ago
Any chance those AVX-512 optimizations they released a while ago work within this? [1]

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-July-2025-AVX-512

3 comments

I think WASM SIMD is only 128-bit wide.
WASM SIMD is 128-bit wide as dtf noted, so AVX-512 won't apply here. Longer term, WebGPU could be a more interesting path for compute acceleration in the browser than SIMD widening.
Note those only apply to scene_sad which is used for scene change detection and freeze detection and a few other things like mpdecimate -- it's a very specific use case
thanks didn't note that until now lol