io: allocate copy buffers from a pool

CopyBuffer allocates a 32k buffer when no buffer is available.
Allocate these buffers from a sync.Pool.

This removes an optimization where the copy buffer size was
reduced when the source is a io.LimitedReader (including the
case of CopyN) with a limit less than the default buffer size.
This change could cause a program which only uses io.Copy
with sources with a small limit to allocate unnecessarily
large buffers. Programs which care about the transient
buffer allocation can avoid this by providing their own buffer.

name           old time/op    new time/op    delta
CopyNSmall-10     165ns ± 7%     117ns ± 7%  -29.19%  (p=0.001 n=7+7)
CopyNLarge-10    7.33µs ±34%    4.07µs ± 2%  -44.52%  (p=0.001 n=7+7)

name           old alloc/op   new alloc/op   delta
CopyNSmall-10    2.20kB ±12%    1.20kB ± 4%  -45.24%  (p=0.000 n=8+7)
CopyNLarge-10     148kB ± 9%      81kB ± 4%  -45.26%  (p=0.000 n=8+7)

name           old allocs/op  new allocs/op  delta
CopyNSmall-10      2.00 ± 0%      1.00 ± 0%  -50.00%  (p=0.000 n=8+8)
CopyNLarge-10      2.00 ± 0%      1.00 ± 0%  -50.00%  (p=0.000 n=8+8)

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