On Fri, 5 Jan 2024, 17:25 Rémi Denis-Courmont, <r...@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 > _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email ffmpeg-devel-requ...@ffmpeg.org with subject "unsubscribe".
