Performance Difference Between C and C++ Style File IO

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You’re using endl to print a newline. That is the problem here, as it does more than just printing a newline — endl also flushes the buffer which is an expensive operation (if you do that in each iteration).

Use \n if you mean so:

file << i << '\n';

And also, must compile your code in release mode (i.e turn on the optimizations).

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