Bug 1323583

Summary:	Pasting hundreds of kilobytes of text takes tens of seconds
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jiri Prajzner <jprajzne>
Component:	vim	Assignee:	Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	23	CC:	ignatenko, karsten, moshima.web
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Description Jiri Prajzner 2016-04-04 07:32:44 UTC

Description of problem:
Pasting hundreds (100 and more) kilobytes of text takes tens of seconds 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vi -viminfo
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Aug 20 2015 09:51:26)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open vi
2. switch to insert mode
3. paste very long text

Actual results:
it takes mor2 than 20 seconds to paste the text (Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4900MQ CPU @ 2.80GHz, 16GB RAM)

Expected results:
it's pasted immediately

Additional info:
It doesn't happen with gedit

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2016-04-07 09:19:58 UTC

Pasting kilobytes of text into a console is slow, that's not vim's fault.
Just try 

echo "paste your kilobytes of text here"

For a fair comparison of paste speeds, use gvim instead and you'll see how fast it is.