printf more than 5 times faster than std::cout?

Question

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    std::clock_t start;
    dou         


        

Answer 1

I tried this test on my laptop, running Windows 10, WSL Ubuntu, CLion 2018, GCC. No optimization:

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
    std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
    std::cin.tie(nullptr);
    std::clock_t start;
    double duration1, duration2;

    std::cout << "Starting std::cout test.\n";
    start = std::clock();

    for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
        std::cout << "Hello, World! (" << i << ")" << std::endl;
    }

    duration1 = (std::clock() - start) / (double) CLOCKS_PER_SEC;

    std::cout << "Starting std::printf test.\n";
    start = std::clock();

    for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i++) {
        std::printf("Hello, World! (%i)\n", i);
        std::fflush(stdout);
    }

    duration2 = (std::clock() - start) / (double) CLOCKS_PER_SEC;

    std::cout << "Time taken: cout " << duration1 << std::endl;
    std::cout << "Time taken Printf: " << duration2 << std::endl;

    return 0;
}

Results:

Test1: Cout: 2.25, Printf: 2.45312  (Cout run first)
Test2: Cout: 2.42188, Printf: 2.07812 (Printf Run first)
Test3: Cout: 2.26562, Printf: 2.25 (Cout run first)
Test4: Cout 2.46875, Printf: 2.57812 (Printf run first)

TL;DR: Using std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false) and std::cin.tie(nullptr) brings both functions to almost the same stand.