[margana]

I thought it would be something like recompiling to utilize AVX512 capabilities or something.

[tremon]

Vector operations like AVX512 will not magically make common software faster. The number of applications that deal with regular operations on large blocks of data is pretty much limited to graphical applications, neural networks and bulk cryptographic operations. Even audio processing doesn't benefit that much from vector operations because a codec's variable-size packets do not allow for efficient vectorization (the main exception being multi-channel effects processing as used in DAW).

[isotypic]

Vector operations are widely used in common software. Java uses AVX512 for sorting. glibc uses SIMD instructions for string operations.