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Avoid per-entry array allocation in Request#build_headers
`build_headers` walked the env with `each_header.with_object(...)`. Because `Enumerator#with_object` hands the block a single value plus the memo, the two values `each_header` yields (`k`, `v`) get boxed into a throwaway `[k, v]` Array on every iteration — which the `|(k, v), headers|` destructure then immediately unpacks. That is one array allocated, packed, destructured, and discarded per request header. Drop `with_object` for a plain `each_header do |k, v|` block writing into a pre-built `Grape::Util::Header`. `k` and `v` arrive as separate block args (normal multi-value yield), so no array is boxed, and the accumulator is just a closed-over local. Output is byte-identical (`each_header` is `Rack::Request::Env#each_header`, i.e. full env iteration; the `HTTP_` filter is unchanged). `build_headers` runs lazily, only when an endpoint reads `headers`. Measured on a request with ~30 headers: ~43% fewer objects (37 -> 21 per call) and ~1.36x faster, with the array packing — not the Enumerator object itself — accounting for the entire gap. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CHANGELOG.md

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* [#2770](https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape/pull/2770): Avoid per-entry array allocation in `Request#build_headers` by replacing `each_header.with_object` with a plain block - [@ericproulx](https://github.com/ericproulx).
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* Your contribution here.
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lib/grape/request.rb

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# Uses a plain `each_header` block instead of `each_header.with_object`:
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# `with_object` can only pass the block one value plus the memo, so the
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# `k, v` pair would be boxed into a throwaway Array on every header. A
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# two-arg block receives `k`/`v` directly and allocates nothing extra.
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def build_headers
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each_header.with_object(Grape::Util::Header.new) do |(k, v), headers|
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headers = Grape::Util::Header.new
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each_header do |k, v|
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next unless k.start_with? 'HTTP_'
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transformed_header = KNOWN_HEADERS.fetch(k) { -k[5..].tr('_', '-').downcase }
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headers[transformed_header] = v
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end
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headers
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end
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end
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