issue #139: eliminate quadratic behaviour on input path

Rather than slowly build up a Python string over time, we just store a
deque of chunks (which, in a later commit, will now be around 128KB
each), and track the total buffer size in a separate integer.

The tricky loop is there to ensure the header does not need to be sliced
off the full message (which may be huge, causing yet another spike and
copy), but rather only off the much smaller first 128kb-sized chunk
received.

There is one more problem with this code: the ''.join() causes RAM usage
to temporarily double, but that was true of the old solution too. Shall
wait for bug reports before fixing this, as it gets very ugly very fast.

mitogen/core.py

@@ -695,8 +695,6 @@ class Stream(BasicStream):
     :py:class:`BasicStream` subclass implementing mitogen's :ref:`stream
     protocol <stream-protocol>`.
     """
-    _input_buf = ''
-
     #: If not ``None``, :py:class:`Router` stamps this into
     #: :py:attr:`Message.auth_id` of every message received on this stream.
     auth_id = None
@@ -707,6 +705,8 @@ class Stream(BasicStream):
         self.name = 'default'
         self.sent_modules = set()
         self.construct(**kwargs)
+        self._input_buf = collections.deque()
+        self._input_buf_len = 0
         self._output_buf = collections.deque()
 
     def construct(self):
@@ -718,40 +718,55 @@ class Stream(BasicStream):
         _vv and IOLOG.debug('%r.on_receive()', self)
 
         buf = self.receive_side.read()
-        if buf is None:
+        if buf:
-            buf = ''
+            if self._input_buf and self._input_buf_len < 128:
-
+                self._input_buf[0] += buf
-        self._input_buf += buf
+            else:
-        while self._receive_one(broker):
+                self._input_buf.append(buf)
-            pass
+            self._input_buf_len += len(buf)
-
+            while self._receive_one(broker):
-        if not buf:
+                pass
+        else:
             return self.on_disconnect(broker)
 
     HEADER_FMT = '>hhhLLL'
     HEADER_LEN = struct.calcsize(HEADER_FMT)
 
     def _receive_one(self, broker):
-        if len(self._input_buf) < self.HEADER_LEN:
+        if self._input_buf_len < self.HEADER_LEN:
             return False
 
         msg = Message()
-        # To support unpickling Contexts.
         msg.router = self._router
 
         (msg.dst_id, msg.src_id, msg.auth_id,
          msg.handle, msg.reply_to, msg_len) = struct.unpack(
             self.HEADER_FMT,
-            self._input_buf[:self.HEADER_LEN]
+            self._input_buf[0][:self.HEADER_LEN],
         )
 
-        if (len(self._input_buf) - self.HEADER_LEN) < msg_len:
+        if (self._input_buf_len - self.HEADER_LEN) < msg_len:
-            _vv and IOLOG.debug('%r: Input too short (want %d, got %d)',
+            _vv and IOLOG.debug(
-                        self, msg_len, len(self._input_buf) - self.HEADER_LEN)
+                '%r: Input too short (want %d, got %d)',
+                self, msg_len, self._input_buf_len - self.HEADER_LEN
+            )
             return False
 
-        msg.data = self._input_buf[self.HEADER_LEN:self.HEADER_LEN+msg_len]
+        start = self.HEADER_LEN
-        self._input_buf = self._input_buf[self.HEADER_LEN+msg_len:]
+        prev_start = start
+        remain = msg_len + start
+        bits = []
+        while remain:
+            buf = self._input_buf.popleft()
+            bit = buf[start:remain]
+            bits.append(bit)
+            remain -= len(bit) + start
+            prev_start = start
+            start = 0
+
+        msg.data = ''.join(bits)
+        self._input_buf.appendleft(buf[prev_start+len(bit):])
+        self._input_buf_len -= self.HEADER_LEN + msg_len
         self._router._async_route(msg, self)
         return True