> A theoretical performance penalty, which, in practice, you just right there told us was a non-factor, right? Not theoretical at all. Connection pooling will

> A theoretical performance penalty, which, in practice, you just right there told us was a non-factor, right? Not theoretical at all. Connection pooling will make the initial connection time a non-factor, but it will not make the SSL performance penalty a non-factor. According to the 1st graph and the data in the table below it, even with connection pooling SSL still reduces performance by 50%-75%. That's a very big penalty.