Performance issues when reading program output from Standard Output

[maks]

Recently upgraded to VBP 8.0 and noticed significant build time increase.
Found out that when a step is configured to "Read program output from" Standard Output and there is a lot of output by the step then it takes much longer to run in v8 compared to v7. Also it is much slower to run the step in v7 then in console window outside of VBP.

For example to execute a batch file that echos 1000 lines takes:
14 seconds in VBP7
1 minute 19 seconds (!!!) in VBP8 (similar in both 32 and 64 bit versions)
1 second in console window or in VBP7 and VBP8 with "Read program output from" set to None.

Is there any configuration or workaround to improve the performance of reading of Standard Output?