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Approximately: because browsers already have good HTTP parsers built in, and that seems safer than trying a new fast binary parser.



Is performance really such a big concern here? How slowly can one possibly parse binary DNS responses in a native language?


Also, why a complete http stack? Before we know it we need to send JSON packets to the cpu to do some multiplication


Fair enough.




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