Historically, performance has ALWAYS been a major security issue. To the point that it's been claimed to be easy to build highly secure ciphers and tools, i

Historically, performance has ALWAYS been a major security issue. To the point that it's been claimed to be easy to build highly secure ciphers and tools, it's difficult to build them that perform well. Performance was a major factor in the AES and SHA selection processes. Performance is a major factor in the interest in ECC. Arguably, performance is why you'd ever use C for anything at all. Seems easy to dismiss them and say their priorities are backwards, fundamentally at the end of the day, a huge majority of the users will simply pick the benchmark winner and use it. It a free project and their priorities are what they are, what are the priorities of the legions that used it instead of writing their own?