I've seen this kind of thing before. Someone falls in love with their optimization ("we can parse GET with a single int switch!") and when it is pointed out th

I've seen this kind of thing before. Someone falls in love with their optimization ("we can parse GET with a single int switch!") and when it is pointed out that it doesn't handle the spec correctly, and that handling the spec correctly would make this as slow as the naive way, it still ends up in the code because "it's good enough."