Depends. One argument could be that if the requested page use all sizes then there will be a lot of image calls (slower response, bandwidth etc) but you can bypass that i.e. by loading images with JS. Also more sizes means more disk space usage. I don’t think there is any significant performance concern related to back-end, meaning the db calls / queries etc.
Also if the images are compressed from the begging a few pixels down in width or height won’t be a difference in performance.
You can have an image with 600×900 dimension and cover a lot of intermediate sizes adjusting with CSS and keep a good aspect ratio and have a good quality for retina monitors. Better to have a bigger, in dimension, image and shrink it than to have a smaller image and scale it up.
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