regression with forward proxy due to Revision 1912459

Hi,

While investigating a customer case I note a regression with forward 
proxy. While testing I have:
2.4.57 finished in 3.05s, 3278.62 req/s, 743.70KB/s
2.4.x  finished in 15.38s, 650.17 req/s, 147.88KB/s

The regression goes way with:
+++
jfclere@fedora:~/httpd-2.4.x$ svn diff .
Index: modules/proxy/proxy_util.c
===================================================================
--- modules/proxy/proxy_util.c	(revision 1925472)
+++ modules/proxy/proxy_util.c	(working copy)
@@ -1660,7 +1660,6 @@
          conn = connection_make(p, worker);
      }
      else if (conn->close
-             || conn->forward
               || (conn->connection
                   && conn->connection->keepalive == AP_CONN_CLOSE)
               || worker->s->disablereuse) {
+++
But that doesn't look quite right. any hints?

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Cheers

Jean-Frederic