Re: recent change to yanking behavior of the clipboard

[Óscar Fuentes]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

>> That means when I yank, I don't get the thing I've most recently copied to
>> the clipboard.  I get some old thing from the primary selection.
>>
>> I don't understand how this new behavior is meant to be useful.
>
> It is meant to be useful by providing a visible performance improvement
> when Emacs is run over a network with moderate latency, by not querying
> the X server for the value of CLIPBOARD when text was last killed inside
> Emacs.  And yes, that is what motivated me to install that change.

I have many hours of experience using Emacs through ADSL, 3G and even
EGPRS links with the NX protocol.

Can you show some numbers to quantify that visible performance
improvement? And an step-by-step procedure to demonstrate the
before/after difference?