printf is faster when piped through tee

Norman Vine nhv@cape.com
Sat Sep 2 13:13:00 GMT 2000


Jonas Jensen writes:
>
>> >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.
>>
>
>Did you do this on purpose or something? It seems a bit weird that a write
>takes _excactly_ 1/100th of a second, both on my GeForce-powered desktop
>comp. and my weak laptop...
>

Hint -
you might want to perform your test using this terminal or something similar
http://www.io.com/~bub/rxvt.html
instead of the console device.

Norman


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