Why is pasting a long one-liner very slow in Vim's insert mode?

Question

My Macbook was stuck yesterday, when I tried to paste 1200 lines of 80 characters to Vim. It was much faster to download the file, and not to paste the text.

I have

Answer 1

If you use Apple Terminal try an other terminal, like iTerm. Sometimes, the "build-in" terminal is not really reactive for common task. Don't know why...