How come "pacman -Syu" usually shows a negative next upgrade size?

I'm used to updates being bigger than the original, or at least equal in size.
The past half year, all my updates on different systems have usually been decreasing in size. I don't think pacman deletes old versions of packages in its cache unless I explicitly do that myself.
So, how come?

Scimmia wrote:The devs have been removing static libs and libtool files from the packages when they're not needed.
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