Until someone can chime in with better advise:

Have a look at the comments on the HackerNews thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2752136

They propose some issues with the testing methodology, in particular the
configuration option "ssl_session_cache" and keepalive_* may have not been
adjusted from their default values.

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:15 AM, davidkazuhiro <nginx-forum@nginx.us>wrote:

> According to this article http://matt.io/entry/uq nginx is really slow
> at SSL. Is this true and should I be using stud to handle SSL
> connections, or is nginx actually fast an it's a configuration issue or
> a fluke version of nginx?
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:
> http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,212229,212229#msg-212229
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