SMRTR ProgrammingJul 19, 2025TechSpot

FFmpeg gets 100x faster with AVX-512 and handwritten assembly code

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FFmpeg's "rangedetect8_avx512" function now runs 100 times faster due to handwritten assembly and AVX-512 instructions, greatly accelerating media transcoding on modern x86 CPUs and improving speed on older processors with AVX2.

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