On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 11:18 AM J M wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm seeing that Cygwin is a bit slow, directly and after comparing to > simple ubuntu virtual machines by example. > > Specifically: > > - Copy and paste texts in vim, I see clearly the slow in paste.
I don't know about the rest, but paste being slow is an old problem - eg: Subject: speeding up a paste operation To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 7:30 PM at least on my machine, there's a clear winner for pasting in an absurdly large amount of text: $ time d2u < /dev/clipboard > hosts-3.txt real 0m11.372s user 0m3.749s sys 0m6.984s $ time cat /dev/clipboard | tr -d '\r' > hosts-2.txt real 0m4.405s user 0m0.124s sys 0m3.577s $ time getclip -u > hosts.txt real 0m0.734s user 0m0.031s sys 0m0.031s Regards, Lee -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple