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

Why don't you do an experiment? On average for me, printing the string helloperson;\n using printf takes, on average, 2 clock ticks, while cout using endl takes a huge amount of time - 1248996720685 clock ticks. Using cout with "\n" as the newline takes only 41981 clock ticks. The short URL for my code is below:

cpp.sh/94qoj

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To answer your question, printf is faster.

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
using namespace std;
int main()
{
  clock_t one;
  clock_t two;
  clock_t averagePrintf;
  clock_t averageCout;
  clock_t averagedumbHybrid;
  for (int j = 0; j < 100; j++) {
    one = clock();
    for (int d = 0; d < 20; d++) {
      printf("helloperson;");
      printf("\n");
    }
    two = clock();
    averagePrintf += two-one;

    one = clock();
    for (int d = 0; d < 20; d++) {
      cout << "helloperson;";
      cout << endl;
    }
    two = clock();
    averageCout += two-one;

    one = clock();
    for (int d = 0; d < 20; d++) {
      cout << "helloperson;";
      cout << "\n";
    }
    two = clock();
    averagedumbHybrid += two-one;
  }
  averagePrintf /= 100;
  averageCout /= 100;
  averagedumbHybrid /= 100;
  cout << "printf took " << averagePrintf << endl;
  cout << "cout took " << averageCout << endl;
  cout << "hybrid took " << averagedumbHybrid << endl;
}

Yes, I did use the word dumb. I first made it for myself, thinking that the results were crazy, so I searched it up, which ended up with me posting my code.

Hope it helps, Ndrewffght