Robert Iakobashvili made the 'master_buffer' get allocated first once it is

can/will be used as it then makes the common cases save 16KB of data for each
easy handle that isn't used for pipelining.

lib/sendf.c

@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ int Curl_read(struct connectdata *conn, /* connection data */
     }
     /* If we come here, it means that there is no data to read from the buffer,
      * so we read from the socket */
-    bytesfromsocket = MIN(sizerequested, sizeof(conn->master_buffer));
+    bytesfromsocket = MIN(sizerequested, BUFSIZE * sizeof (char));
     buffertofill = conn->master_buffer;
   }
   else {