Somewhat inspired by the performance improvements to tvbuff, I've made some
small performance improvements to packet-http.c:
1. In the most common cases 'GET ', 'POST', 'HTTP' - compare them against
the 32bit value of those strings, instead of strncmp(). I reckon in most
cases it'll be used, and there won't be need for longer comparison paths.
2. Changed the order of the cases in some switch() statements, to make the
common cases first.
3. Changed a look up in an array to have the strings length statically
stored in the array, instead of dynamically strlen()'ed every time.

I'm sure there's more room for improvement (I need to fix the fact it goes
over the first line of request/reply needlessly twice, trying to figure out
if it's a request or response, again), but that's a start - I wanted to get
feedback that I didn't break anything (as I suspect I might have, especially
with segmented or fragmented requests).

Comments are welcome,
Y.

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