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docs: remove performance note in CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER

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This note became obsolete since PR #7892 (see also discussion in the PR
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Closes #9832
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@ -61,15 +61,6 @@ man-in-the-middle the communication without you knowing it. Disabling
verification makes the communication insecure. Just having encryption on a
transfer is not enough as you cannot be sure that you are communicating with
the correct end-point.
NOTE: even when this option is disabled, depending on the used TLS backend,
curl may still load the certificate file specified in
\fICURLOPT_CAINFO(3)\fP. curl default settings in some distributions might use
quite a large file as a default setting for \fICURLOPT_CAINFO(3)\fP, so
loading the file can be quite expensive, especially when dealing with many
connections. Thus, in some situations, you might want to disable verification
fully to save resources by setting \fICURLOPT_CAINFO(3)\fP to NULL - but
please also consider the warning above!
.SH DEFAULT
By default, curl assumes a value of 1.
.SH PROTOCOLS