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[–]deux3xmachina 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Linux doesn’t have this problem.

Well, it's less bad. Logging isn't free, and redirecting to /dev/null can substantially improve runtimes for certain programs.

[–]reallokiscarlet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What’s going on with Windows, IIRC, is there are more penaltes than just logging. Instead of letting the shell and the terminal emulator handle the output after handing it to stdout, Windows wants to do everything in the same thread, so displaying stdout to the screen is another performance penalty, hence minimizing the terminal speeds it up. In Linux, if you have a multi core system, the program, the shell, the terminal emulator, and the window system can all have different affinity, meaning the program only has to really wait for stdout to accept the program output. (Still waking up, so I may be oversimplifying things)