this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
159 points (95.4% liked)

Programmer Humor

34837 readers
51 users here now

Post funny things about programming here! (Or just rant about your favourite programming language.)

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Don’t most terminals flush the buffer on newline anyway?

[–] ClemaX@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

It is the stream itself that is buffered, so the terminal does not handle the contents until the stream is flushed.

[–] vapeloki@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Maybe, but there is the internal buffer. Also, most I/O happens in files not consoles