Cron jobs are a time based trigger that executes scripts. A cron job itself would not cause any performance issues. If the script the cron job is executing is resource intensive then the script would cause performance issues and not the cron job. All BPS Pro cron jobs, scripts, code, etc. are optimized for maximum performance and do not cause any website slowness.
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