Brion's information will surely help. I was thinking of simply the turn, rather as a bowline so weakens a line compared with a splice or even, if applicable, two turns and a taughtline hitch. The fact that such conjoined splices put equal stress on each leg of each splice might, more importantly than sharing the pull strain, share and spread the fiber stresses that travel from the bends in a way less damaging than the way other knots, again the bowline, put all that stress right back up the solo standing part.
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