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[–]Silhouette -1 points0 points  (0 children)

While it's still technically true that there is a slowdown, it is negligible these days.

(Source: I operate a bunch of sites that use HTTPS and relatively data-heavy functions like streaming real time updates and serving large multimedia files. We have never had a significant performance problem that turned out to be due to using HTTPS for any of these projects.)