Fix slow file reading

[kustosz]

Pull Request Description

There was unnecessary data copying happening when reading a file. There isn't anymore.
From the numbers reported in #1724 it brings the times down to ~1s. This is exactly the same as reading a file in pure Java, with a FileInputStream, which is pretty much the best time we can get on the JVM.

Fixes #1724

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