Pasting large text in vim

Hi,
I've been struggling for years with an issue of not being able to paste
large amounts of text in vim in a timely manner.  Yeah, it was kind of bad,
because I'd lost all hope that there would be a vim upgrade which would
support a basic paste command.
  Before anyone jumps to conclusions, I did try several options -
command-shift-V, entering paste mode, tried putting some sort of weird vmap
command in my vimrc that called pbcopy. But nothing worked as I just stared
at my screen watching text very slowly being pasted.
 Then, I discovered something that changed my vim experience and just
wanted to share that with some of you. It turns out there is a
star/asterisk register, which holds the clipboard contents. So you can just
press double quote - shift 8 -then p (that's "*p) , and instantly, all your
worries about pasting large text in vim just go away.
  Now, there is some fine print that I should let people know. Your vim
compiler needs to be built with a "+clipboard" option. And of course,
finding out your vim compiler options is not common knowledge. But that's
easy to check too - just run "vim --version" and pipe it to grep clipboard,
and you can see have this amazing feature builtin.
  Don't take my word for it - try out the star register and just watch how
these 3 characters can transform your vim copy-paste experience for large
clipboard contents.

Thanks,
Ven

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