This PR reconciles the overlapping goals of #64887, #64346, #64393, and
#64455 into one canonical HTTP, net, and stream architecture.

Those PRs identified real bottlenecks and directly informed this work. The
goal here is to combine their valid objectives without landing competing
response builders, caches, fast paths, or duplicate lifecycle state.

No public API or documented wire behavior is intentionally changed.

Changes

790260a488e — canonical write architecture

• batches compatible HTTP framing, payloads, trailers, and terminating chunks
  through one shared vector path;
• fixes corked-output ordering while preserving callbacks, backpressure,
  destruction, TLS, trailers, and pipelining;
• creates WriteWrap objects only for asynchronous writes;
• coalesces adjacent native string storage safely;
• preserves partial writes, errors, IPC, async hooks, and custom transports;
• caches maxHeaderPairs once per independent parser header section.

bb58fcd9904 — final path reconciliation

• reuses the existing send path for eligible final strings, Buffers, and
  Uint8Array values;
• preserves mutable Buffer and custom write/_writev semantics;
• applies one capability decision to immediate and queued output;
• delegates compatible HTTP/2 final writes to Http2Stream.end(chunk);
• adds focused HTTP/1, HTTP/2, net, and stream regression coverage.

39318a1d642 — bounded managed-read reuse

• reuses one unexposed 64 KiB read backing store per Environment;
• retains the existing managed-buffer map as the ownership source;
• preserves exact chunk sizes and independent transferability;
• avoids shared slabs, backing-store amplification, and cross-chunk detach
  coupling.

Related work

This PR is intended to supersede the overlapping work while acknowledging the
analysis and implementation effort behind it:

The tested #64393 tip returned stale output when a reused Buffer changed from
A to B: main and this branch produced A, B, while that branch produced
A, A. Its cached headline path is therefore not a semantics-preserving
comparison target.

The tested shared slab from #64455 exposed a 64 KiB backing store for small
chunks and coupled their transfer/detach behavior. This branch keeps every
emitted chunk exactly sized and independently transferable.

Performance

Local macOS arm64 Release builds were compared through paired, interleaved
runs against the same f43086d1e4d base.

The exceptional explicit-cork result comes from correcting a path that
previously emitted HTTP framing writes outside the socket-level batch. It is
the removal of a pathological unbatched path, not a claim that every HTTP
workload becomes 30x faster.

The read cache retains exactly 65,536 additional arrayBuffers bytes per
Environment. That value remained constant from 5,000 through 200,000
roundtrips, with no growth in RSS or external memory.

Validation

The output/write reconciliation passed:

• HTTP, HTTPS, and HTTP/2: 831/831
• net, stream, and TLS: 638/638
• child process, cluster, async hooks, and Web Streams: 243/243
• sequential HTTP, net, pipe, and GC tests: 25/25

The final read-buffer binary additionally passed:

• net and TLS: 382/382
• branch-specific changed-path tests: 20/20
• Environment C++ tests: 28/28
• independent TLS transfer/detach verification
• JavaScript and C++ lint
• git diff --check

Documentation is unchanged because this is an internal, behavior-preserving
reconciliation.

AI assistance

I developed this PR iteratively with OpenAI Codex as a pair-programming and
analysis tool. It helped trace the affected code paths and related PRs,
explore implementation alternatives, expand test coverage, run and analyze
benchmarks, and edit parts of this description.

I evaluated the alternatives, removed candidates that did not preserve
semantics or demonstrate measurable value, and reviewed and understand the
final diff and reported results.