Bug 117433 - Consider using AtomicString in HTTP header
Summary: Consider using AtomicString in HTTP header
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebCore Misc. (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Keywords: BlinkMergeCandidate
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Reported: 2013-06-10 15:21 PDT by Ryosuke Niwa
Modified: 2013-06-10 23:53 PDT (History)
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Description Ryosuke Niwa 2013-06-10 15:21:24 PDT 
Also consider merging https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/085f6a22460b323408b9794f17f93cef647ff898.

Profiling memory use by Mobile Gmail shows that we're wasting a lot of memory
on duplicate HTTP headers. For example, we're wasting 2.4 kB by having 25
copies of the User-Agent header. To save memory, we should atomize header
values as well as header names.