Re: printf() overhead

Alan Curry
2005-01-09T21:26:55Z

John Richard Moser writes the following:
>Andre Tomt wrote:
>| John Richard Moser wrote:
>|> using strace to run a program takes aeons. Redirecting the output to a
>|> file can be a hundred times faster sometimes. This raises question.
>|
>| The terminal is a major factor; gnome-terminal for example can be
>| *extremely* slow.
>|
>
>Is there a way to give the data to the terminal and let the program go
>while that happens? Or is there an execution path (i.e. terminal says
>"WTF NO") that can be missed that way?

strace -o tracefile prog & tail -n +1 -f tracefile