Comment 5 for bug 963420

well,
  To see if the performance regression occurred just within wget and its string of dependencies, I did:
$ sudo sed -i.lucid s,lucid,precise, /etc/apt/sources.list
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wget
   # that pulled in libc-bin libc6 libgssapi-krb5-2 libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3 libkrb5support0 libnih-dbus1 libnih1 openssh-client openssh-server wget
   # then to get certificates I had to:
$ sudo apt-get install ca-certificates
   # which pulled in openssl.

After that, performance was in the 10-14M/s range. so there is definitely a performance hit in one of the packages listed above.