printf slows down my program

Question

I have a small C program to calculate hashes (for hash tables). The code looks quite clean I hope, but there\'s something unrelated to it that\'s bugging me.

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Answer 1

You could store your strings in a buffer and output them to a file (or console) at the end or periodically, when your buffer is full.

If outputting to a console, scrolling is usually a killer.