Do not dup nonfrozen string on download (Fix memory leak) #754
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was introduced here to avoid problems where response body was frozen. Unfortunately, it came with a huge memory penalty and caused a memory leakFollowing https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/29196 and using provided benchmark here are the results (GC was disabled)
Before
After
Memory leak during upload was fixed with #711