Re: printf() overhead

[John Richard Moser]

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Andre Tomt wrote:
| John Richard Moser wrote:
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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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| The terminal is a major factor; gnome-terminal for example can be
| *extremely* slow.
|

Is there a way to give the data to the terminal and let the program go
while that happens?  Or is there an execution path (i.e. terminal says
"WTF NO") that can be missed that way?

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