Previously, we would compact the buffer (moving unread data to the
start of the buffer) as follows:
- after processing a message, if there are zero unread bytes, just reset
the indices for first and last unread byte to zero
- else, if at least 1/8th of the buffer is used, copy remaining data to the beginning of the buffer
The second option is never actually necessary, as before inserting new data
into the array, we already check if there's enough free space, and
compact the buffer first if necessary. So we've been doing a lot of
copies that weren't actually needed. Let's not do that any more.
