Should I upgrade my 2008 MacBook 5,1 from macosx 10.6.8 to 10.9.1

I have an old 13" macbook 5,1 (first aluminium unibody model from 2008) with 4 GB of RAM and a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
Originally it shipped with Leopard (macosx 10.5), and I upgraded to Snow Leopard (macosx 10.6.8) in order to keep downloading security updates and for compatibility with newer 64 bit applications that only run on 10.6 and later OSs.
However, concerned by possible performance penalties I did not switch to Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion (10.8).
Now the reviews about Mavericks make me think it might be a good idea to upgrade.
The new features and eye-candy of the new version are of no importance to me.
However the upgrade may reportedly improve system performance, at least w.r.t. Lion and Mountain Lion on relatively new hardware.
What about older, barely acceptable hardware.
My question is:
* is there a good reason for upgrading my old hardware to mavericks? My priorities are:
  - system performance
  - security updates
  - compatibility with security updates of installed applications
* my hardware is barely acceptable for an upgrade: is the upgrade likely to improve the system performance or the opposite?
* until now I have never felt the need to upgrade: all applications I use still work fine with 10.6, with updates still supporting 10.6
* however if security updates of the system or installed applications start dropping 10.6 I may be forced to switch to mavericks. Is this likely to happen anytime soon?
Thank you for your help!
best regards,
uxl2

If my experience with a similarly aged computer is any indicator, you'll notice an immediately speed hit once you've upgraded to Mavericks. Each OS X update tends to be more memory hungry than the previous and my 2007 iMac wasn't happy with Lion until I upgraded the RAM and at that point Lion performance roughly matched Snow Leopard. Mountain Lion and then Mavericks shaved some speed off again. Mavericks on the 2007 iMac was okay for the most part but switching between applications was slow as was the fileselector.
My 2009 MBP saw similar slowdowns with Lion but I was above to upgrade it to 8GB which made a big difference. (My iMac was limited to 6GB) but I still saw a significant speed hit with Mt Lion when I tried to run multiple memory intensive applications. Seeing how my wife's MacBook Air dealt with Mt Lion with only 4GB I decided to install an SSD in the MBP and wow what a difference. Tried it with the iMac using a FireWire800 enclosure and saw similar improvement.
So to boil it down to one sentence, you are going to see a significant speed hit with only 4GB but if you can afford to upgrade your drive to an SSD you'll be amazed at how well that computer can run.

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