Asyncio: Pipes and socket IO is very slow

[socketpair]

BPO	26909
Nosy	@gvanrossum, @vstinner, @socketpair, @1st1
PRs	[Do Not Merge] Convert Misc/NEWS so that it is managed by towncrier #552

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2016-09-15.20:59:19.773>
created_at = <Date 2016-05-02.17:06:33.401>
labels = ['expert-asyncio', 'performance']
title = 'Asyncio: Pipes and socket IO is very slow'
updated_at = <Date 2017-03-31.16:36:23.793>
user = 'https://github.com/socketpair'

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closed_date = <Date 2016-09-15.20:59:19.773>
closer = 'yselivanov'
components = ['asyncio']
creation = <Date 2016-05-02.17:06:33.401>
creator = 'socketpair'
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issue_num = 26909
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pr_nums = ['552']
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'fixed'
stage = 'resolved'
status = 'closed'
superseder = None
type = 'performance'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue26909'
versions = ['Python 3.5']

[socketpair]

python/asyncio#338

(example of program shows bug resides on github)

[python-dev]

New changeset e6adc2448c3d by Yury Selivanov in branch '3.5':
Issue bpo-26909: Fix slow pipes IO in asyncio.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/e6adc2448c3d

New changeset c462db8985d8 by Yury Selivanov in branch '3.6':
Merge 3.5 (asyncio, issue bpo-26909)
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c462db8985d8

New changeset 6b07f261ccf4 by Yury Selivanov in branch 'default':
Merge 3.6 (asyncio, issue bpo-26909)
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6b07f261ccf4

[1st1]

Closing this one. Thank you Mark for discovering the issue and suggesting a solution (still hope we'll commit your patch in 3.7).

Thank you INADA Naoki for the patch!