That's true, but performance improvements don't require fulltime developers. Many companies are directly impacted by OpenSSL performance (maybe moreso in the pa

That's true, but performance improvements don't require fulltime developers. Many companies are directly impacted by OpenSSL performance (maybe moreso in the past when a big question about HTTPS adoption was the performance overhead of adding SSL to all requests, whereas today it's generally considered not a problem) which means companies have an incentive to submit patches to fix identifiable performance issues.