this looks like it could be an interesting read that i would be bothered to read if a human bothered to write it.

I did write it, the machine did all the react tho (with my help)

I found it worthwhile and interesting. I'm not in deep with proxies every day and have never had to profile performance like this. The writing was very comprehendable to me and the summing conclusions rounded things out nicely. The first conclusion was probably the most practical takeaway: Codec defaults are performance changes. Its obvious in retrospect but also easy to glaze over when reading release notes.