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Windows 7 / Powershell 2 compatibility
Get-Clipboard was introduced in PowerShell 3, which means it won't work on your average Windows 7 system. the old code is PS3+ compatible, and the new code is PS2+ compatible.
Edit: this should also make it Vista/XP/Server 2003/Server 2008 compatible, but the oldest i've actually tested is 7.
Hyperfine benchmarks:
$ cat approach1.bat
powershell.exe -Command Get-Clipboard
$ cat approach2.bat
powershell -sta "add-type -as System.Windows.Forms; [windows.forms.clipboard]::GetText()"
$ hyperfine "approach1.bat"
Benchmark #1: approach1.bat 0
Time (mean ± σ): 352.0 ms ± 11.7 ms [User: 1.4 ms, System: 5.0 ms] 0
Range (min … max): 341.1 ms … 382.5 ms 10 runs
$ hyperfine "approach2.bat"
Benchmark #1: approach2.bat 0
Time (mean ± σ): 374.5 ms ± 6.3 ms [User: 1.4 ms, System: 6.5 ms] 0
Range (min … max): 365.7 ms … 389.4 ms 10 runs
$ hyperfine "approach1.bat"
Benchmark #1: approach1.bat 0
Time (mean ± σ): 386.8 ms ± 25.9 ms [User: 0.0 ms, System: 4.1 ms] 0
Range (min … max): 358.7 ms … 444.3 ms 10 runs
$ hyperfine "approach2.bat"
Benchmark #1: approach2.bat 0
Time (mean ± σ): 417.9 ms ± 21.5 ms [User: 4.2 ms, System: 5.0 ms] 0
Range (min … max): 386.7 ms … 461.6 ms 10 runs
~ TL;DR the new code is about 20 milliseconds slower on my i7-8565U CPU @ 1.8GHz with 2133Mh/s ram (unfortunately a lot of background noise during benchmarking, don't have any easy way to fix that, the absolute best runs should be the most accurate representation of performance impact though)
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