cout or printf which of the two has a faster execution speed C++?

Question

I have been coding in C++ for a long time. I always wondered which has a faster execution speed printf or cout?

Situation: I am designing a

Answer 1

On Windows at least, writing to the console is a huge bottleneck, so a "noisy" console mode program will be far slower than a silent one. So on that platform, slight differences in the library functions used to address the console will probably make no significant difference in practice.

On other platforms it may be different. Also it depends just how much console output you are doing, relative to other useful work.

Finally, it depends on your platform's implementation of the C and C++ I/O libraries.

So there is no general answer to this question.