They also forced the touch-like interface onto computers that didn’t have a touch screen.

This is great, but the context is that this is for specific inner loops, and it is compared to the C version of that specific inner loop. Typically what was used before this on a computer with avx512 was the avx2 version of the inner loop, and the speedup compared to that version appears to be up to 60%: https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1852542388851601913 . Then as not a specific inner loop isn’t run all the time, the speedup is probably much less than 60%. This is still sizeable, but the actual speedup in practice with this implementation is far far from 94x.

Yeah 7000-series Ryzen benefits from the avx512 code paths in ffmpeg. I’ve benchmarked a 5900x vs a 7900x specifically for software H.265 decoding and there was a sizeable difference.

For example, maybe branching is something you’d like to be able to do without it being a nightmare?

I expected some resolution or motivation for everything that had occurred, instead we got “God did it”.

It’s just a pity on a great show to have such a bad ending.