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		count on Oct 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Dropbox API Everything has overhead at scale. I think the 'HTTPS is hard on computers' stage has passed by though...its just not that computationally intensive on modern hardware.

admp on Oct 22, 2011 [–]

Obligatory reference: "SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more."

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.ht...

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