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But it’s so dirty? That’s why XHTML came about, because there’s no proper standard in HTML. XML states that you can’t have an opening tag without a closing tag, unless it is self-closing, which only applies to a few tags in HTML.
Having code that is unfinished makes it somehow… unfinished? And unfinished code is bad code from a website designers point of view.
Plus the fact that the speed increase you get is so minimal it’s pointless anyway. Why sacrifice nice, clean and semantic code for a couple of bytes of speed?