* fit comfortably within a single ethernet packet (1500 bytes) even with framing overhead.
     *
     * For tests this must be big enough to realize real compression on test messages like
     * 'aaaaaaaaaa...'. Our tests check if compression was applied just by looking at the size if
     * the inbound buffer.
     */
    const val DEFAULT_MINIMUM_DEFLATE_SIZE = 1024L

     * (Runtime checks could be particularly bad for users of LegacyConverter.)
     *
     * Luckily, our nullness checker is smart enough to realize that `convert` has @PolyNull-like
     * behavior, so it knows that `convert(a)` returns a non-nullable value, and we don't need to
     * perform even a cast, much less a runtime check.
     *