Re:JavaScript async/await implemented in V8
by jwmerrill on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @08:30AM
(#11713010)
At the time that the request resolves, it has received and processed the response headers, but it may still be receiving the response body (which is represented as a stream). All the body representations (like .text() or .json()) need to wait until the body has arrived before they can resolve.
https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/#concept-body-consume-body