[PROTON-2751] Reduce use of pn_buffer_t when not needed

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: proton-c-0.40.0
• Component/s: proton-c
• Assignee: Andrew Stitcher
• Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
• Created: 11/Jul/23 17:42
• Updated: 2 days ago 16:03
• Resolved: 11/Jul/23 21:55

Description

pn_buffer_t has complex logic to hold and manage a ring buffer. But is being used just to manage a resizeable bytes buffer. And in most of those places the buffer doesn't really nned to be resized either!
So it can be replaced in many places with much simpler code.