Re:The Dropbox API
by count on Friday October 21, 2011 @05:36PM
(#3141815)
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.
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Obligatory reference: "SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more."
http://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.ht...