Bug 1323583 - Pasting hundreds of kilobytes of text takes tens of seconds
Summary: Pasting hundreds of kilobytes of text takes tens of seconds
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: vim
Version: 23
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Karsten Hopp
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-04-04 07:32 UTC by Jiri Prajzner
Modified: 2016-04-07 09:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-04-07 09:19:58 UTC
Type: Bug

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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.
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