OPTIM: lua: don't use expensive functions to parse headers in the HTTP applet
In the HTTP applet, we have to parse the response headers provided by
the application and to produce a response. strcasecmp() is expensive,
and chunk_append() even more as it uses a format string.
Here we check the string length before calling strcasecmp(), which
results in strcasecmp() being called only on the relevant header in
practise due to very few collisions on the name lengths, effectively
dividing the number of calls by 3, and we replace chunk_appendf()
with memcpy() as we already know the string lengths.
Doing just this makes the "hello-world" applet 5% faster, reaching
41400 requests/s on a core i5-3320M.
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