it was often argued, but HW codecs are not used in practice -- they have other compromises (quality, size limitations, setup times, single central resource when

it was often argued, but HW codecs are not used in practice -- they have other compromises (quality, size limitations, setup times, single central resource when there are often 100 images on a web page) that make them difficult to be used for images simd based software coding if more than fast enough, at least for JPEG and JPEG XL