printf() overhead

[John Richard Moser]

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using strace to run a program takes aeons.  Redirecting the output to a
file can be a hundred times faster sometimes.  This raises question.

I understand that output to the screen is I/O.  What exactly causes it
to be slow, and is there a possible way to accelerate the process?
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