Why is reading lines from stdin much slower in C++ than Python?

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00:00 Question
02:58 Accepted answer (Score 1899)
04:59 Answer 2 (Score 212)
06:02 Answer 3 (Score 209)
13:19 Answer 4 (Score 109)
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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9371...

Accepted answer links:
[sync_with_stdio]: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/ios_...

Answer 2 links:
[dtruss/strace]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strace

Answer 3 links:
['Useless Use Of Cat']: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Unix)...

Answer 4 links:
[Python]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28p...

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#python #c++ #benchmarking #iostream #getline

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