[FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request: AVX512-capable laptop

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2024, 17:25 Rémi Denis-Courmont, <remi at remlab.net> wrote:

> Le keskiviikkona 3. tammikuuta 2024, 2.56.12 EET Lynne a écrit :
> > As some of you know, my laptop died nearly 2 years ago, and
> > I've been working on a desktop machine, which is currently a Zen 3.
> > AVX512 has become more popular in the meantime, with Zen 4
> > and future AMD CPUs shipping with it, but currently, we have very
> > little AVX512.
>
> Frankly, generally speaking, I don't think it makes sense to buy laptops
> for
> development *unless* desktop systems are not an option.
>
> And here, a desktop system is not only an option, but it is the
> technically
> better and already purchased option. A desktop is cheaper, more faster,
> more
> serviceable and more incrementally upgradeable. More prosaically a desktop
> system is much more suitable to occupational well-being - laptops are
> awfully
> inadequate in terms of ergonomy, unless they are docked, at which point
> they
> become expensive under-provisioned desktops.
>
> A laptop would of course be necessary whilst spending extended periods of
> your
> time away from home. But if so, that would be a discretionary choice of
> life
> style choice. There is nothing wrong with doing that per se, but I really
> don't think that an open-source foundation should be addressing
> discretionary
> life style choices.
>

Furthermore there is already an AVX-512 development machine I host for
FFmpeg that several developers use.

Kieran

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