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This is a debatable topic. We wrote a blog post about this as well: https://supertokens.io/blog/are-you-using-jwts-for-user-sess...

The benchmark in that article comparing JWT to opaque session id's doesn't mention what database setup is used or what JWT signing scheme is used.

Presumably it's just using a HMAC, I think if it used RSA or an asymmetric signing scheme, the performance would look much different.

Yes. It was using HMAC. But I would still assume that RSA would be much faster than a db lookup (in a distributed system)?

Perhaps, at least on the JDK[0] RSA can take a few ms, probably a fair bit faster with a native implementation though.