This has several benefits:
- The message can be resent without re-calling bytes(),
which for some requests may be expensive.
- Converting requests to bytes early lets us detect
errors early, such as OverflowError on bad requests.
- Containers can't exceed 1044456 bytes so knowing their
length is important. This can now be done in O(1).
But also several drawbacks:
- If the object is modified the bytes won't reflect this.
This isn't an issue because it's only done for in msgs.
- Incoming messages can no longer be reconverted into
bytes but this was never needed anyway.
This simplifies the flow instead of having separate request/body
attributes, and also means that BinaryReader.tgread_object() can
be used without so many special cases.
