[shitter]

Why not? If it's high-performance, it's fine.

[qudat]

SSH suffers from tcp-in-tcp issues which means it’ll always take a performance hit over other protocols

[PunchyHamster]

If you spend entire CPU to process few megabits of SSH traffic, it isn't high performance

[pseidemann]

Performing with highly elevated privileges? (Joke)

[jabedude]

ssh the protocol doesn't imply any privileges of any kind

[raggi]

Unless you leave your ssh agent on, then it very much does.