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By Hyado, history, 4 years ago, In English

I got stuck in 102253L - Limited Permutation because of slow printf (´・_・`)

Does anyone know why printf is much slower than cout in C++17(64bit)?

I measured execution time in Custom Test

printf

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
using ll = long long;
#define rep(i, a, n) for(ll i = a; i < n; ++i)
int main() {
  ll n = 10000000;
  rep(i, 0, n) printf("%d ", n);
}
  • 3587 ms(GNU C++17 9.2.0 (64bit,2msys))
  • 1996 ms(GNU C++17 7.3.0)

cout

#include <bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
using ll = long long;
#define rep(i, a, n) for(ll i = a; i < n; ++i)

int main() {
  ll n = 10000000;
  rep(i, 0, n) cout << 1000000 << " ";
}
  • 1138 ms(GNU C++17 9.2.0 (64bit,2msys))
  • 1544 ms(GNU C++17 7.3.0)

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