Assembly language and SIMD optimization
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Assembly language and SIMD optimization has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Kieran KunhyaBritish codec engineer, longtime FFmpeg contributor, founder of Open Broadcast Systems and the person behind the FFmpeg account on X
Kunhya said hand-written SIMD in FFmpeg yields 10x to 50x speed improvements over compiled C, not marginal percentage gains.
“when we write SIMD is we have a 10X, not percentage, 10X to 50X speed improvement”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 2:09:47
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- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
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#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the InternetLex Fridman Podcast · May 6, 2026 · 4 h 24 min
Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya explain FFmpeg, VLC, video codecs, handwritten assembly, open-source maintainer burnout and the Google security drama with Lex Fridman.