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Re:Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles pe... by nirvdrum on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:30PM (#17085663)
People routinely read text files larger than 1 KB into memory. HTTP responses are often larger than 1 KB. Serialized data (JSON, XML, etc.) is often larger than 1 KB.
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Re:Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles pe... by bumblebritches5 on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @03:53PM (#17085871)
HTTP headers are not anywhere near 1kb of text.

the packet's themselves are only 1.5kb.

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Re:Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles pe... by nirvdrum on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:21PM (#17086104)
The headers are one component of a response. The body is often larger than 1 KB.
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