[FFmpeg-devel] Hardware purchase request: AVX512-capable laptop

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le lauantaina 6. tammikuuta 2024, 18.21.00 EET Lynne a écrit :
> As for whether this is a lifestyle choice, we generally pay for anything
> that involves conferences, from train tickets, planes, parking, and
> sometimes for location/stand rent.

I would personally agree that representing FFmpeg at (non-FFmpeg-specific) 
conferences is a choice of life style. But it is normal to refund reasonable 
expenses made to represent the project.

> I'm asking for a useful bit of permanent hardware.

I don't question that providing you with one development system with the 
relevant Vulkan hardware support and AVX-512 is (or was) justified. If you do 
all the work for free (or paid by some other entity than FFmpeg), that's 
indeed excellent ROI.

But the "business" case for a *second* system with all the disadvantages of a 
laptop is frankly not so clear.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
http://www.remlab.net/