Why does it take significantly more time to print multiple lines to the terminal rather than redirecting it to a file which seems to be almost instant ?
Why is it slower to print directly to console/terminal than redirecting?
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Primarily, terminals are just plain slow. For every update, they have to:
and possibly do all of the above over again if you use screen or tmux.
Meanwhile, for redirecting to a file, you just have to:
Dump data into RAM (for later writeback to storage).
This step is so minor that it doesn't even register on the terminal's checklist.
This is not something people optimize for, because the speed of your terminal is rarely an issue. The difference between terminals can be 50x (VGA vs fbcon back in the day), and you can time it with a simple
time cat somebigfile.txt
.