alt Hacker NewsYou can go quite far with such libraries if you only perform data-parallel numerics on the CPU. However, if you work on complex algorithms or exotic data structures, there's almost always more upside in avoiding them and writing specialized code for each platform of interest.
I don't understand why it helps to "avoid them" entirely. For the (in my experience) >90% of shared code, we can gain the convenience of the wrapper library. For the rest, Highway allows target-specific specializations amidst your otherwise portable code: `#if HWY_TARGET == HWY_AVX2 ...`