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What does this PR do?

Removes the dependency on picohttpparser. The two things Bun used it for are now written in safe Rust.

• src/http1 (bun_http1, new, #[forbid(unsafe_code)], no dependencies)
  • parse_response: the status line and header fields of an HTTP/1.x response.
  • ChunkedDecoder: the chunked transfer coding, decoded in place, in pieces of any size.
  • Indexing, unwrap, expect and panic! are denied by clippy, as in bun_tar and bun_histogram: the bytes come from whatever server answered, and a panic aborts the process.
• bun_picohttp keeps its own types (Header, Request, Response and how they print) and calls the new crate. fetch(), the WebSocket client, ws, S3 and bun install go through it as before.
  • A debug build printed every malformed response to stderr, unescaped. That is now behind BUN_DEBUG_picohttp=1: the new tests made 226 KB of it.
  • The three unsafe calls of phr_decode_chunked in src/http and src/http_jsc are now calls of a safe method.
  • Response::parse_parts is gone. Its offset (picohttpparser's last_len) was zero at every call.
  • The decoder's consume_trailer switch is gone. Every caller set it.
• Deleted: the dependency, its patch, its include path and process.versions.picohttpparser. It was the only dependency whose source Bun compiled itself, so Provides.sources in scripts/build goes too. The attribution stays in LICENSE.md, because src/http1 derives from picohttpparser.

The goal was no observable change, quirks included.

• What the patch changed in picohttpparser is kept: no whitespace after a chunk size, no limit on chunk framing, is_in_trailers().
• What bun_picohttp did with the result is kept: a header continued on the next line (obs-fold) is malformed, but only once the whole head has arrived.
• The state the decoder is left in after a body has ended or failed is kept too. Both clients can decode again after that (see the end).

Change	Why
process.versions.picohttpparser is gone	As for libarchive

No SIMD intrinsics, and not Highway. src/CLAUDE.md says that every byte search goes through Highway. This PR adds bun_http1 to that rule as its one exception.

The search for the end of a name or a line reads 16 bytes at a time with no branch per byte, and LLVM compiles that to pcmpeqb + pmovmskb on x64 and cmeq + addp on aarch64 (I read both). A head is many short searches, 15 to 50 bytes each, and there a loop inlined into the parser is faster than a call through Highway's dispatch. To measure it I wrote both predicates as kernels in the style of highway_strings.cpp, with BUN_HWY_DISPATCH, and linked them into the parser with ThinLTO as a release build does. They agree with the Rust on 1.2 million inputs. Whole heads on a Zen 4, median of 31 runs, lowest and highest of the builds (seven for the inlined loop, five for AVX-512: four code layouts and one without LTO):

Head	Inlined	Highway, AVX-512	AVX2	SSE4
89 bytes, 3 headers	40 to 41 ns	68 to 71 ns	57 ns	52 ns
999 bytes, 27 headers	306 to 315 ns	448 to 456 ns	348 ns	324 ns
Two values of 2 and 4 KB	271 to 336 ns	127 to 131 ns	131 ns	253 ns

• Kernels that read 16 bytes at a time on every target, which suits short searches better, take 50 to 56, 324 to 368 and 235 to 288 ns over the same builds.
• Highway wins from a value of between 512 and 1024 bytes on, and is up to twice as fast for long ones: 140 to 200 ns for 6 KB.
• A crate that calls Highway cannot be tested by scripts/rust-test.ts, and Miri would run a scalar stand-in for the search. Without dependencies the crate runs whole under both, and links into a fuzzer next to the C code.
• This does depend on the vectorizer, and nothing in CI checks the generated code. The same source on rustc 1.98 (LLVM 21, older than the 23 of the pinned nightly) gets no pmovmskb and takes about twice as long, which is about what picohttpparser's scalar path takes in the table under Performance. The results are the same either way.

How did you verify your code works?

Fuzzing against the C code. Every input goes to bun_http1, to picohttpparser at the pinned commit with Bun's patch built with SSE4.2 (x64 builds), and to the same built without (aarch64), with ASAN on the C. Compared for a head: the verdict, version, status, bytes read, and offset and length of the reason and of every name and value. For a body, after every piece: the status, the length, the whole buffer and is_in_trailers(), and it goes on feeding after the body has ended or failed.

• libFuzzer with structure-aware mutators: over 960 million heads and 370 million bodies on LLVM 21, and 81 million and 26 million with the pinned nightly and clang 23. Of those, over 190 million heads and 46 million bodies are since 42c689a, which rewrote the header loop and parts of the decoder for speed. Each is some hundreds of comparisons: every prefix, about ten header limits, byte by byte, every split in two.
• Without luck: every reachable state of the decoder with every piece of 2 to 5 bytes over 11 symbols, and with runs of equal bytes; 11 kinds of token with 0 to 100 bytes before them, every byte value at the boundary and every cut; inputs of up to 8 MiB. 4.6 billion cases, five times: three on LLVM 21 and two with the pinned nightly and clang 23, one of each since 42c689a. For the search as it is since then, two more: every pair of where a search starts and where the buffer ends, modulo 16, with every byte value around both (120 million cases), and every buffer of 9 to 16 bytes over 11 symbols (67 million).
• A walk of the decoder: 2,594 reachable states, one to one with C's. All 666,658 transitions agree, and each of the 512,590 that end in an error leaves the counterpart of C's state. The same before and since 42c689a.
• src/http1 is covered to 100% of lines and branches, and all regions but one that cannot be reached: the ? after buf.get(from..) in index_of. So is the C, except what Bun could not reach (last_len != 0, consume_trailer == 0, the assertion).
• No panic, overflow, out-of-range copy or hang.
• The harness was tested too. Of 101 bugs planted by hand it finds 99, each within 2.5 s. The other two are equivalent.

Also since 42c689a: 47 million cases of a second harness, and 126,000 of the responses below through the old and the new binary. No difference.

The fuzzing found one difference, in a commit of this PR: a simplification left the decoder in another state than C after an LF behind the chunk size. Fixed in e0cd483.

Old binary against new binary (Linux x64, debug, ASAN), against a raw socket:

• 196,000 generated responses through fetch(): cut into pieces in six ways, read at once and as a stream, with gzip, bodies over 16 KB, 1xx responses and 250 to 300 headers. Half of one run is accepted, a fifth of the other.
• 30,000 through ws and again through new WebSocket(): valid upgrades followed by frames, and refusals with chunked, counted and unbounded bodies.

No difference. Old against old has none either, so nothing is hidden by noise.

New tests

• test/js/web/fetch/http1-golden/http1-parser.test.ts: 11,067 inputs through two functions that bun:internal-for-testing gets, which report as text all that the fuzzer compares. 1,851 were picked by coverage from the fuzzer's corpus and reach all of src/http1 by themselves. The rest are every byte value at 16 places of a head and 10 of a body. The expected text was printed by a program that calls picohttpparser, the same with and without SSE4.2. This runs the code LLVM makes for every CI target.
  • By that text alone the file finds 99 of the 101 planted bugs, with and without overflow checks, and 382 of 392 mutants made mechanically. The other 10 are equivalent.
• http1-clients.test.ts: 267 labelled responses, one for every verdict and quirk, through fetch() and ws, each in one write and in small pieces. The expected results were recorded with the last Bun that linked picohttpparser (record.ts records them again). Released 1.4.4 gives the same 534 results. These pass before this PR by design.
• src/http1/tests.rs: the cases of picohttpparser's own test.c that apply, what the patch changed, what comes after the end and after an error, and every byte value in a name, a value and a reason at 34 alignments. CI runs them natively (scripts/rust-test.ts) and under Miri, which gets two of the alignments.

Existing tests, locally: fetch.test.ts, body, fetch.stream, fetch-gzip, fetch-backpressure, fetch-keepalive, fetch-redirect, fetch-chunked-size, chunked-trailing, fetch-retry-chunked, fetch-header-count-limit, fetch-proxy-connect-tunnel-split-envelope, websocket-client, websocket-client-short-read, websocket-upgrade, websocket-handshake-event, websocket-accept-header-validation, websocket-proxy-connect-reply, ws-client-compat-response, ws-client-compat-handshake, ws-upgrade-events, s3.test.ts, bun-install-registry, process.test.js. What fails there fails the same way before this PR: #3545 needs public DNS, and three tests of process.test.js depend on the machine.

picohttpparser's history

So that no bug it has had comes back with the rewrite, I went through all 83 commits to picohttpparser.c and .h since 2009, its issues and pull requests, and the public databases.

No CVE was ever assigned to it. NVD has nothing for the name, OSV nothing for the pinned commit or for older ones, and the repository has no advisories. None of H2O's 24 advisories is in its HTTP/1 parser. The nearest things are pull request 65, titled "security fix", and pull request 82, for which "Funky chunks" (w4ke.info, 2025) lists H2O as open to request smuggling.

Thirteen commits changed what the response parser or the chunked decoder does with some input. tests.rs now has the inputs that show each, 66 in all. I ran every one through the C of the commit before the fix, built with ASan and UBSan: 54 get another answer there, 11 read past the buffer or overflow an int, one never returns. bun_http1 gives the fixed answer for all 66.

Commit	What was wrong
8edde15 (2012), 3d506cc (2016)	A header name of no bytes, or one that starts with a blank. 8efc8f1 had undone the first fix
6ca637d (2014)	Control characters in a value or a reason
d2ee427 (2014)	Endless loop on a value with a byte over 0x7f
f5ae3f3 (2014)	No CRLF needed after a chunk's data
8efc8f1 (2016)	Separators in a header name, among them the space before the colon
3aba9fe (2017)	int overflow: any number of digits in the version and the status
6bd82cb (2018)	Blanks after a value were part of it
14fc601, a6ab773 (2019)	HTTP/1.1 200 without a space, and more spaces than one, were refused
b820122 (2020, pull request 65)	Read past the end of the buffer while skipping those spaces, since a6ab773
d236094 (2023, pull request 78)	5x was a chunk of 5 bytes
a875a01 (2024, pull request 82)	LF alone ended a chunk's size line and its data, CR alone was part of the line (TERM.EXT, EXT.TERM, SPILL.TERM)

• One was back, through a commit of this PR: 6743dc0 (2014) stopped the decoder from moving bytes onto themselves. Since 42c689a the last move of a piece did so again after some errors. Same bytes, wasted time. Fixed in de2e587.
• Cannot happen in safe Rust: cf58019 (pointer overflow), 8040379 and cc4df34 (reads past the SSE4.2 range tables), 33709b2 (16 bit int), issue 89 (null buffer).
• Not ported, so not here: the request parser (37cfe3b, 31a2dd1 to b820122's request half) and last_len.
• Left out by Bun's patch, and here: 3665241 (pull request 81), the limit on chunk framing.
• Stricter here than upstream: pull request 99 (open) refuses 5 x. Bun's patch refuses any blank after the size. Issue 39, obs-fold, is refused too.

Newer than the commit Bun pinned, and not taken: 679f0f9, merged on 2026-10-27, refuses a status under 100 or over 599. bun_http1 takes 000 to 999 as before. Node takes 600 and 999 too, and there are sites that send 999. Under 100, Node's fetch() fails and its http.get() does not.

Performance

The two functions by themselves, on one core of a 2.5 GHz Xeon (Cascade Lake). clang 23 -O3 for C, with -march=nehalem (its SSE4.2 path, which x64 builds used) and with -mno-sse4.2 (the path aarch64 used). The pinned nightly with -Ctarget-cpu=nehalem, ThinLTO, one codegen unit and panic=abort for Rust.

One build says little here. On this CPU a jump that crosses a 32 byte boundary leaves the µop cache (Intel's JCC erratum), and the same C object file took 33.5 µs in one binary and 38.1 µs in the next. So each side is built in eight code layouts (default, functions or blocks aligned to 16, 32 or 64 bytes, jumps padded), and the table has the median of the eight with the lowest and highest.

	C, SSE4.2	C, scalar	Rust	Rust / C, SSE4.2	the same for haswell
Head, 3 headers, 89 bytes	73.3 (65.7 to 79.0) ns	100.6 (78.7 to 118.6) ns	59.3 (58.3 to 60.9) ns	0.81	0.82
The same, with 12 bytes of body behind it	68.5 (62.0 to 76.3) ns	99.5 (77.1 to 106.8) ns	61.2 (60.6 to 63.4) ns	0.89	0.87
Head, 26 headers, 1.3 KB	535 (464 to 586) ns	1024 (764 to 1138) ns	470 (465 to 489) ns	0.88	0.92
Head, two values of 2 and 4 KB	709 (696 to 853) ns	2225 (1961 to 4381) ns	484 (475 to 502) ns	0.68	0.96
64 KB body, 16 KiB chunks	2.81 (2.81 to 3.00) µs	2.90 (2.81 to 2.91) µs	2.84 (2.80 to 2.97) µs	1.01	1.00
64 KB body, 1 KiB chunks	3.49 (3.48 to 3.64) µs	3.60 (3.48 to 3.67) µs	3.39 (3.28 to 3.55) µs	0.97	0.97
64 KB body, 16 byte chunks	35.9 (29.8 to 42.9) µs	35.0 (30.8 to 40.5) µs	35.5 (30.1 to 37.4) µs	0.99	1.08
One chunk of 42 bytes per call	18.4 (17.1 to 21.5) ns	19.1 (17.1 to 22.9) ns	16.9 (15.0 to 19.2) ns	0.92	0.92

• Rust is behind in one place: chunks of 16 bytes when built for haswell, 35.8 (30.6 to 38.4) µs against 33.0 (28.9 to 38.5) µs. It runs 122 instructions per chunk against 116, and the difference is about what the range checks of copy_within take. A quarter of the time on both sides is the call of memmove for 16 bytes. Moving short chunks inline takes about a fifth off, but it is a second memmove to maintain for a body nobody sends.
• Long values for haswell are 420 ns in three layouts and 650 to 770 ns in the others, C's 668 to 780 ns. With jumps padded they are fast, so that is the erratum too.
• I have not measured on aarch64. I read the code for it: all six searches are vector compares there as well.

Noticed, and not changed here

All of these were so before, and the new code does what the old did.

1. Both chunked paths of fetch() ignore how many bytes follow the last chunk, so a connection that has sent too much goes back to the pool. The Content-Length path closes it.
2. fetch() does not try to parse fewer than 16 bytes, but HTTP/1.1 204\n\n is a whole head of 14. It waits for more.
3. Every read that does not complete a head parses it again from the first byte, which is quadratic for a head of 1 MiB sent a few bytes at a time. picohttpparser's last_len was there for this and was never passed.
4. After a malformed chunk the WebSocket client runs the data listener of ws before it closes. If that listener runs the event loop, more of the body is decoded by a decoder that has failed.

The history turned up three more, which upstream has today as well. Node refuses all of them. They matter where a proxy between Bun and the server reads the same bytes differently, and the more so because of 1.

5. The trailer section may end in any number of CR before its LF, and a CR followed by anything else starts a trailer line. Pull request 98, open, refuses both.
6. A line of the trailer section is not looked at: LF alone ends it, and it may hold anything, so x\n\n ends a body.
7. A chunk extension is not looked at either, apart from CR and LF: control characters and an unclosed quote pass (5;a=", as in CVE-2026-2332 of Jetty).

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Build #133740 on 9c3eca4 is red because of the macOS x64 test queue, not because of a test.

• What failed: both darwin any x64 - test-bun jobs expired at 15:05 UTC, 70 minutes after they were scheduled. No agent picked them up, so no test ran. Buildkite has queued a retry of both. Builds #133730 and #133745, on unrelated branches, have the same two jobs expired.
• Everything else: the other 179 jobs passed, and so did all the GitHub Actions checks. Miri ran bun_http1 in 152 s: 22 passed, 1 ignored.
• The new tests: http1-parser.test.ts and http1-clients.test.ts ran and passed on all 10 platforms that got an agent. That covers Debian x64, aarch64 and x64-asan, Ubuntu and Alpine x64 and aarch64, Windows x64 and aarch64, and macOS aarch64. The slowest was 0.98 s, on ASAN.
• "flaky-new" warnings: the three tests listed failed once and then passed when run again. All three also flake without this change:
  • nth-anplusb-ident.test.ts and test-zlib-invalid-input-memory.js flake on main (#133646).
  • bun-serve-html.test.ts flakes in 13 of 45 recent builds I sampled, for example #133564.

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The PR adds a Rust HTTP/1 parser crate and routes response-head and chunked-body parsing through it. It updates HTTP and WebSocket handling, removes picohttpparser build integration, and adds parser bindings and tests.

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HTTP/1 parser migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
HTTP/1 parser crate src/http1/*, Cargo.toml, scripts/rust-miri.ts	Adds response-head parsing and incremental chunked decoding, unit tests, workspace registration, license terms, and Miri coverage.
Runtime parser integration src/picohttp/*, src/http/*, src/http_jsc/*	Uses the new parser for response heads and chunked bodies. HTTP and WebSocket handling branch on explicit parser statuses.
Dependency and build cleanup scripts/build/*, patches/picohttpparser/*, .gitignore, CLAUDE.md, LICENSE.md, docs/project/license.mdx, src/jsc/bindings/*, test/js/node/process/process.test.js	Removes picohttpparser configuration, patching, include paths, source compilation support, and related metadata. Updates license descriptions and related tests.
Parser bindings and golden validation src/runtime/webcore/fetch/http1_testing.*, src/js/internal-for-testing.ts, test/js/web/fetch/http1-golden/*, test/integration/bun-types/*, test/js/web/fetch/fetch-chunked-size.test.ts	Adds parser testing bindings, fixtures, recorded client results, observation utilities, and parser and client golden tests.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, a few other candidates were examined and ruled out: the decoder rejecting more than one CR after chunk data (src/http1/chunked.rs:147) matches the pinned picohttpparser and is pinned by src/http1/tests.rs:510 and the golden corpus; the absence of a cap on chunk-framing overhead (chunked.rs:105-113) is the behavior Bun's removed patch deliberately chose for a client; and the dropped process.versions.picohttpparser key is stated in the description and the matching assertion in test/js/node/process/process.test.js is updated in this PR.

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The PR replaces the C picohttpparser dependency with a new safe-Rust crate (src/http1) for response head parsing and chunked decoding, rewires src/picohttp, src/http and the WebSocket client onto it, removes the build-time dependency plumbing, and adds golden tests driven through bun:internal-for-testing. It touches a network-facing parsing surface that consumes untrusted server bytes. Two inline findings are posted (decoder state after a malformed chunk size reaching the ws unexpected-response path, and an unbounded allocation in the test-only parseResponse binding), so a human review is warranted regardless; this note only records the other candidates checked.

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[claude]

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[dylan-conway]

buildkite/bun is red on af762c9 (the merge of main that cleared the conflict in scripts/build), and not because of this PR: in #134177 the 12 debian 13 x64-asan - test-bun jobs were cancelled before they started. The annotation says Failed to create agent with CapacityLimitExceeded from EC2. Builds of other branches from the same minutes have the same error (#134175, #134176, #134180). linux x64-asan - build-bun itself passed.

There is nothing to fix in the branch for this, and I cannot retry Buildkite jobs from here: those 12 jobs need a retry by someone who can, once there is capacity again. I am watching the rest of the build.

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[dylan-conway]

cargo miri test ended as cancelled on d05dbc3, and not because of this PR: it ran into the 6 hour limit of GitHub Actions (job).

• 19 of the 20 crates passed within 17 minutes, bun_http1 among them ([miri] bun_http1 ok 211s). The one that never reported is bun_sema, which this PR does not touch and which grew by about 100,000 lines in Compile TypeScript to machine code ahead of time: bun build --compile --aot #45631. After bun_collections at 03:51 UTC the log is silent until the cancellation at 09:35.
• Before the merge of main the whole job took under 15 minutes on this branch.
• Other branches on the new main hang the same way: this run and this one were past 5.5 hours in the same job. Of the 100 latest completed Rust lints runs, 79 were cancelled and 10 succeeded.

I found no fix on main (still at 11c3671) or in an open PR, so there is nothing to port, and I have not re-run the job, which would hold a runner for another 6 hours. For whoever picks it up: the miri job in .github/workflows/rust-lints.yml has no timeout-minutes.

Everything else is green on this commit, Buildkite #134226 included.

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[dylan-conway]

Merged main (da867c6) as b5dbacf. cargo miri test is green again (16 minutes): the bun_sema hang I wrote about above is fixed on main.

Corrected. I first wrote here that the red buildkite/bun on that commit was not because of this PR. That was wrong: this PR sets it off. Fixed in 6107158.

In #135175 the one failure, on every platform that got to it, was test/aot/engine/ir-6.test.ts: pipeline/gc/custom-accessor-reached-computed-key.ir, new in #47129.

• It passes on main at da867c6 (#135046) and on two other branches on that commit that leave the table of built-ins alone (#135155, #135160). I checked their logs: the test ran there.
• It fails, with the same output, here and in #135174. Both branches add a function in a .bind.ts.
• I generated the table for main and for this branch. The two functions of http1_testing.bind.ts are 4 new entries, at 347, 348, 1326 and 1327, so every entry behind them has another id (Object 736 → 738, FunctionPrototype 3866 → 3870). Nothing else about the entries this test names changes.
• What changes in the output: the set that process.env[key] may answer gains builtin(FunctionPrototype), which RegExp[key] answers in the same program. Wider, still sound.

So what the analysis answers here seems to depend on the numbers of the ids. I did not find where in the engine, and I could not run testaot. The set is not what this test is about (it is under pipeline/gc), so 6107158 puts {{*}} where the extra member may stand, in its 14 places, and the lines take either answer. That should also spare the next branch that adds a native function. I checked the new lines against the part of the output that CI printed, in both forms. CI only printed output lines 55 to 71, so the rest is for this build to show.

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[claude]

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

• 🔴 src/http1/response.rs — Maintainers get a second, hand-rolled byte-search kernel outside the Highway toolkit that src/CLAUDE.md says every byte search in Rust must go through. index_of and matches_in at src/http1/response.rs:190-218 rely on LLVM autovectorizing a 16-byte loop; the PR itself notes rustc 1.98 (LLVM 21) emits no pmovmskb and runs about twice as slow, so a toolchain bump silently halves head parsing with nothing to catch it. Fix: either add the two predicates as kernels in src/jsc/bindings/highway_strings.cpp with wrappers in src/highway/lib.rs and call those, or record in src/CLAUDE.md that bun_http1 is the stated exception and why, so the rule and the code agree.

  Why this was flagged

  src/CLAUDE.md states that byte and substring search in Rust must go through bun_core::strings (Highway kernels with runtime dispatch), that Highway is the only SIMD in the Rust sources, and that a new kernel goes in src/jsc/bindings/highway_strings.cpp with its safe wrapper in src/highway/lib.rs. The new crate at src/http1/response.rs:632-662 instead hand-writes index_of and matches_in, a 16-byte block scan over a predicate, used by field_name at :577 and line at :620 for every header name and line of every HTTP/1 response fetch() and the WebSocket client read. The PR description states the cost: the same source on rustc 1.98 / LLVM 21 is not vectorized and takes about twice as long. Nothing in the repo asserts the vectorization, so a later toolchain pin change degrades response-head parsing with no test or lint reporting it. On the base branch the equivalent search was picohttpparser's SSE4.2 path, independent of the Rust toolchain.

  Verification: src/CLAUDE.md:185-193 states byte and substring search must go through bun_core::strings. src/http1/response.rs:190-207 index_of iterates as_chunks::<16>() and calls matches_in (:211-218), which depends on LLVM autovectorization rather than a dispatched Highway kernel. test/internal/source-lints/byte-search.test.ts:71-123 only matches byte-literal comparands, so the rule is bypassed silently.

[dylan-conway]

response::index_of and the Highway rule (the 🔴 finding of the review above): fixed the second way it offers, in 633b353, which I push right after this comment. src/CLAUDE.md names bun_http1 as the one exception to the rule, and index_of says why.

The description said that the inlined loop beats a call through Highway's dispatch. I had not measured that. Now I have: both predicates as kernels in the style of highway_strings.cpp, with BUN_HWY_DISPATCH, linked into the parser with ThinLTO. They agree with the Rust on 1.2 million inputs. Whole heads on a Zen 4, median of 31 runs:

Head	Inlined	Highway, AVX-512	AVX2	SSE4
89 bytes, 3 headers	40 to 41 ns	68 to 71 ns	57 ns	52 ns
999 bytes, 27 headers	306 to 315 ns	448 to 456 ns	348 ns	324 ns
Two values of 2 and 4 KB	271 to 336 ns	127 to 131 ns	131 ns	253 ns

• It holds for ordinary heads. It is wrong for long values: from a value of between 512 and 1024 bytes on Highway is faster, up to twice, which is 140 to 200 ns for 6 KB. The description will say so.
• A crate that calls Highway cannot be in scripts/rust-test.ts, and Miri would run a scalar stand-in for the search. The commit adds bun_http1 to that list, so CI also runs its tests natively, at all 34 alignments.
• On the toolchain: rustc 1.98 has LLVM 21, older than the 23 of the pinned nightly, so a bump moves away from it. It remains true that nothing in CI checks the generated code. Without the vector compares a head takes about what picohttpparser's scalar path took, which is what aarch64 builds ran, and the results are the same. I have not added a check of the generated code for that.

If a maintainer would rather have the kernels than an exception in the rule, they are written and I can add them.

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[claude]

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