* intended to be used as a metric: smaller headers are more efficient to encode and transmit.
   */
  fun byteCount(): Long {
    // Each header name has 2 bytes of overhead for ': ' and every header value has 2 bytes of
    // overhead for '\r\n'.
    var result = (namesAndValues.size * 2).toLong()

    for (i in 0 until namesAndValues.size) {
      result += namesAndValues[i].length.toLong()
    }