Related:<p><i>Minotaur: A SIMD-oriented synthesizing superoptimizer</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36701160">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36701160</a> - July 2023 (15 comments)<p>(Reposts are fine after a year or so; links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers)
What's currently the biggest obstacle in getting something like ffmpeg to build (from C) with comparable performance to the handcrafted ASM? Could a compiler for example do it if data structures were better-suitable for SIMD? Would it require a different language altogether?