Bloat Libvpx ❲2024-2026❳

From the perspective of an IoT developer with 32 MB of total flash storage: The default libvpx is a nightmare of redundant symbol tables and CPU dispatchers that will never fire on their hardware.

./configure --disable-runtime-cpu-detect --enable-static This tells the compiler: "Don't write the dispatcher. Just write the code for the CPU I am sitting on." This can cut binary size by 30-40%. Don't need VP8? (You probably don't; you want VP9). Or vice versa? You can't fully disable one easily, but you can reduce features: bloat libvpx

From the perspective of a desktop Linux user: libvpx is lean, fast, and necessary. The "bloat" is actually future-proofing . From the perspective of an IoT developer with