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printf is faster when piped through tee
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- Subject: printf is faster when piped through tee
- From: "Jonas Jensen" <bones0_list at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 16:11:08 +0200
Something's wrong with the performance of printf. When compiling with gcc,
printf executes much slower than with Microsoft's "cl". The funny thing is
that when I pipe those programs through "tee", they're both (equally) fast.
This is my test program:
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
void main(int argc, char** argv)
{
register int i;
if (argc != 2) return 1;
i = atoi(argv[1]);
while (i--)
printf("%i bottles of beer on the wall...\n", i);
}
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Here are the scores of 1000 loops through this program, in seconds, measured
with the "time" keyword in bash.
cl: 0.561
gcc: 10.055
gcc/tee: 0.861
cl/tee 0.861
It appears that there's a way to print faster, because "cat" has no problem,
while "ls" and others suffer badly from it.
Can anyone explain/fix this?
I'm using Win2k, Cygwin 1.1.4.
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