The chart showing jxl-rs taking 1209ms to decode a 5456x3632 image in a single thread is a little damning, but is there an equivalent benchmark showing multithreaded decode performance? Clients tend to have an abundance of threads these days.

Something is fishy here.

The JPEG XL report [1] measured between 240-270 Megapixels/s on 6 cores using the C++ implementation (disclosure: I was responsible for its SIMD/threading), about twice as fast as the then-current libaom.

Measuring on a single core is deeply misleading because our code was designed to scale well. I believe AVIF requires tiling in order to parallelize, which causes artifacts at tile boundaries.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.05987

The time would be less, but you still need to power those cores. Single thread performance can be a good indicator of what it'll do the battery on your phone.