This is a post about AVX and AVX-512 related frequency scaling. Now, something more than nothing has been written about this already, including cautionary tales of performance loss and some broad guidelines, so do we really need to add to the pile?

Perhaps not, but I’m doing it anyway. My angle is a lower level look, almost microscopic really, at the specific transition behaviors. One would hope that this will lead to specific, quantitative advice about exactly when various instruction types are likely to pay off, but (spoiler) I didn’t make it there in this post.

source: HN