On a general note: there really seems to be an extremely inaccurate narrative regarding AV1 and speed taking hold. I can't understand why it isn't easier understood that a reference implementation is about accuracy only, completely ignoring performance considerations. Not in the usual "we'll now try to make it faster", but as in "this is never meant to be used in production, and it's performance is in no way indicative of the performance optimised encoders will see".
As but one example: media encoding is pretty close to being "embarrassingly parallel" in principle, making the first three orders of magnitude easy wins for a straightforward GPU implementation.
On a general note: there really seems to be an extremely inaccurate narrative regarding AV1 and speed taking hold. I can't understand why it isn't easier understood that a reference implementation is about accuracy only, completely ignoring performance considerations. Not in the usual "we'll now try to make it faster", but as in "this is never meant to be used in production, and it's performance is in no way indicative of the performance optimised encoders will see".
As but one example: media encoding is pretty close to being "embarrassingly parallel" in principle, making the first three orders of magnitude easy wins for a straightforward GPU implementation.