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:alt: Ask questions at StackOverflow with the tag fmt
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:target: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fmt
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**{fmt}** is an open-source formatting library for C++.
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It can be used as a safe and fast alternative to (s)printf and IOStreams.
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It can be used as a safe and fast alternative to (s)printf and iostreams.
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`Documentation <http://fmtlib.net/latest/>`__
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`Documentation <https://fmt.dev/latest/>`__
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This is a development branch that implements the C++ standards proposal `P0645
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Text Formatting <http://fmtlib.net/Text%20Formatting.html>`__.
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Released versions are available from the `Releases page
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<https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/releases>`__.
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Q&A: ask questions on `StackOverflow with the tag fmt <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/fmt>`_.
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Features
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--------
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* Replacement-based `format API <http://fmtlib.net/dev/api.html>`_ with
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* Replacement-based `format API <https://fmt.dev/dev/api.html>`_ with
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positional arguments for localization.
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* `Format string syntax <http://fmtlib.net/dev/syntax.html>`_ similar to the one
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of `str.format <https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`_
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* `Format string syntax <https://fmt.dev/dev/syntax.html>`_ similar to the one
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of `str.format <https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`_
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in Python.
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* Safe `printf implementation
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<http://fmtlib.net/latest/api.html#printf-formatting>`_ including
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<https://fmt.dev/latest/api.html#printf-formatting>`_ including
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the POSIX extension for positional arguments.
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* Implementation of `C++20 std::format <https://fmt.dev/Text%20Formatting.html>`__.
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* Support for user-defined types.
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* High speed: performance of the format API is close to that of glibc's `printf
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<http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fprintf>`_ and better than the
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performance of IOStreams. See `Speed tests`_ and
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`Fast integer to string conversion in C++
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* High performance: faster than common standard library implementations of
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`printf <http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fprintf>`_ and
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iostreams. See `Speed tests`_ and `Fast integer to string conversion in C++
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<http://zverovich.net/2013/09/07/integer-to-string-conversion-in-cplusplus.html>`_.
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* Small code size both in terms of source code (the minimum configuration
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consists of just three header files, ``core.h``, ``format.h`` and
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``format-inl.h``) and compiled code. See `Compile time and code bloat`_.
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* Reliability: the library has an extensive set of `unit tests
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<https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/tree/master/test>`_.
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<https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/tree/master/test>`_ and is continuously fuzzed.
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* Safety: the library is fully type safe, errors in format strings can be
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reported at compile time, automatic memory management prevents buffer overflow
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errors.
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* Ease of use: small self-contained code base, no external dependencies,
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permissive BSD `license
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permissive MIT `license
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<https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/blob/master/LICENSE.rst>`_
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* `Portability <http://fmtlib.net/latest/index.html#portability>`_ with
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* `Portability <https://fmt.dev/latest/index.html#portability>`_ with
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consistent output across platforms and support for older compilers.
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* Clean warning-free codebase even on high warning levels
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(``-Wall -Wextra -pedantic``).
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* Support for wide strings.
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* Optional header-only configuration enabled with the ``FMT_HEADER_ONLY`` macro.
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See the `documentation <http://fmtlib.net/latest/>`_ for more details.
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See the `documentation <https://fmt.dev/latest/>`_ for more details.
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Examples
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--------
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This prints ``Hello, world!`` to stdout:
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Print ``Hello, world!`` to ``stdout``:
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.. code:: c++
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fmt::print("Hello, {}!", "world"); // uses Python-like format string syntax
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fmt::printf("Hello, %s!", "world"); // uses printf format string syntax
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fmt::print("Hello, {}!", "world"); // Python-like format string syntax
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fmt::printf("Hello, %s!", "world"); // printf format string syntax
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Arguments can be accessed by position and arguments' indices can be repeated:
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Format a string and use positional arguments:
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.. code:: c++
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std::string s = fmt::format("{0}{1}{0}", "abra", "cad");
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// s == "abracadabra"
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std::string s = fmt::format("I'd rather be {1} than {0}.", "right", "happy");
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// s == "I'd rather be happy than right."
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Format strings can be checked at compile time:
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Check a format string at compile time:
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.. code:: c++
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// test.cc
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#define FMT_STRING_ALIAS 1
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#include <fmt/format.h>
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std::string s = format(fmt("{2}"), 42);
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std::string s = format(FMT_STRING("{2}"), 42);
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.. code::
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$ c++ -Iinclude -std=c++14 test.cc
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...
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test.cc:4:17: note: in instantiation of function template specialization 'fmt::v5::format<S, int>' requested here
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std::string s = format(fmt("{2}"), 42);
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std::string s = format(FMT_STRING("{2}"), 42);
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^
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include/fmt/core.h:778:19: note: non-constexpr function 'on_error' cannot be used in a constant expression
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ErrorHandler::on_error(message);
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context_.on_error("argument index out of range");
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^
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{fmt} can be used as a safe portable replacement for ``itoa``
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Use {fmt} as a safe portable replacement for ``itoa``
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(`godbolt <https://godbolt.org/g/NXmpU4>`_):
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.. code:: c++
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fmt::memory_buffer buf;
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format_to(buf, "{}", 42); // replaces itoa(42, buffer, 10)
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format_to(buf, "{:x}", 42); // replaces itoa(42, buffer, 16)
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// access the string using to_string(buf) or buf.data()
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// access the string with to_string(buf) or buf.data()
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Formatting of user-defined types is supported via a simple
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`extension API <http://fmtlib.net/latest/api.html#formatting-user-defined-types>`_:
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Format objects of user-defined types via a simple `extension API
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<https://fmt.dev/latest/api.html#formatting-user-defined-types>`_:
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.. code:: c++
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template <>
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struct fmt::formatter<date> {
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template <typename ParseContext>
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constexpr auto parse(ParseContext &ctx) { return ctx.begin(); }
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constexpr auto parse(format_parse_context& ctx) { return ctx.begin(); }
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template <typename FormatContext>
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auto format(const date &d, FormatContext &ctx) {
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auto format(const date& d, FormatContext& ctx) {
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return format_to(ctx.out(), "{}-{}-{}", d.year, d.month, d.day);
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}
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};
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std::string s = fmt::format("The date is {}", date{2012, 12, 9});
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// s == "The date is 2012-12-9"
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You can create your own functions similar to `format
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<http://fmtlib.net/latest/api.html#format>`_ and
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`print <http://fmtlib.net/latest/api.html#print>`_
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Create your own functions similar to `format
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<https://fmt.dev/latest/api.html#format>`_ and
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`print <https://fmt.dev/latest/api.html#print>`_
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which take arbitrary arguments (`godbolt <https://godbolt.org/g/MHjHVf>`_):
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.. code:: c++
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// Prints formatted error message.
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void vreport_error(const char *format, fmt::format_args args) {
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void vreport_error(const char* format, fmt::format_args args) {
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fmt::print("Error: ");
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fmt::vprint(format, args);
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}
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template <typename... Args>
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void report_error(const char *format, const Args & ... args) {
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void report_error(const char* format, const Args & ... args) {
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vreport_error(format, fmt::make_format_args(args...));
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}
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report_error("file not found: {}", path);
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Note that ``vreport_error`` is not parameterized on argument types which can
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improve compile times and reduce code size compared to fully parameterized
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improve compile times and reduce code size compared to a fully parameterized
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version.
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Benchmarks
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----------
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Speed tests
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~~~~~~~~~~~
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================= ============= ===========
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Library Method Run Time, s
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================= ============= ===========
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libc printf 1.04
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libc++ std::ostream 3.05
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{fmt} 6.1.1 fmt::print 0.75
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Boost Format 1.67 boost::format 7.24
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Folly Format folly::format 2.23
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================= ============= ===========
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{fmt} is the fastest of the benchmarked methods, ~35% faster than ``printf``.
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The above results were generated by building ``tinyformat_test.cpp`` on macOS
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10.14.6 with ``clang++ -O3 -DSPEED_TEST -DHAVE_FORMAT``, and taking the best of
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three runs. In the test, the format string ``"%0.10f:%04d:%+g:%s:%p:%c:%%\n"``
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or equivalent is filled 2,000,000 times with output sent to ``/dev/null``; for
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further details refer to the `source
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<https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark/blob/master/tinyformat_test.cpp>`_.
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{fmt} is 10x faster than ``std::ostringstream`` and ``sprintf`` on floating-point
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formatting (`dtoa-benchmark <https://github.com/fmtlib/dtoa-benchmark>`_)
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and as fast as `double-conversion <https://github.com/google/double-conversion>`_:
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.. image:: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/576385/69767160-cdaca400-112f-11ea-9fc5-347c9f83caad.png
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:target: https://fmt.dev/unknown_mac64_clang10.0.html
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Compile time and code bloat
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The script `bloat-test.py
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<https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark/blob/master/bloat-test.py>`_
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from `format-benchmark <https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark>`_
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tests compile time and code bloat for nontrivial projects.
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It generates 100 translation units and uses ``printf()`` or its alternative
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five times in each to simulate a medium sized project. The resulting
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executable size and compile time (Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42),
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macOS Sierra, best of three) is shown in the following tables.
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**Optimized build (-O3)**
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============= =============== ==================== ==================
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Method Compile Time, s Executable size, KiB Stripped size, KiB
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============= =============== ==================== ==================
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printf 2.6 29 26
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printf+string 16.4 29 26
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iostreams 31.1 59 55
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{fmt} 19.0 37 34
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Boost Format 91.9 226 203
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Folly Format 115.7 101 88
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============= =============== ==================== ==================
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As you can see, {fmt} has 60% less overhead in terms of resulting binary code
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size compared to iostreams and comes pretty close to ``printf``. Boost Format
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and Folly Format have the largest overheads.
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``printf+string`` is the same as ``printf`` but with extra ``<string>``
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include to measure the overhead of the latter.
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**Non-optimized build**
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============= =============== ==================== ==================
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Method Compile Time, s Executable size, KiB Stripped size, KiB
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============= =============== ==================== ==================
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printf 2.2 33 30
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printf+string 16.0 33 30
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iostreams 28.3 56 52
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{fmt} 18.2 59 50
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Boost Format 54.1 365 303
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Folly Format 79.9 445 430
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============= =============== ==================== ==================
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``libc``, ``lib(std)c++`` and ``libfmt`` are all linked as shared libraries to
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compare formatting function overhead only. Boost Format is a
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header-only library so it doesn't provide any linkage options.
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Running the tests
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Please refer to `Building the library`__ for the instructions on how to build
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the library and run the unit tests.
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__ https://fmt.dev/latest/usage.html#building-the-library
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Benchmarks reside in a separate repository,
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`format-benchmarks <https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark>`_,
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so to run the benchmarks you first need to clone this repository and
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generate Makefiles with CMake::
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$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark.git
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$ cd format-benchmark
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$ cmake .
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Then you can run the speed test::
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$ make speed-test
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or the bloat test::
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$ make bloat-test
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Projects using this library
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---------------------------
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* `Ceph <https://ceph.com/>`_: A scalable distributed storage system
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* `ccache <https://ccache.dev/>`_: A compiler cache
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* `CUAUV <http://cuauv.org/>`_: Cornell University's autonomous underwater
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vehicle
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* `FiveM <https://fivem.net/>`_: a modification framework for GTA V
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* `MongoDB <https://mongodb.com/>`_: Distributed document database
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* `MongoDB Smasher <https://github.com/duckie/mongo_smasher>`_: A small tool to
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generate randomized datasets
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* `TrinityCore <https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore>`_: Open-source
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MMORPG framework
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`More... <https://github.com/search?q=cppformat&type=Code>`_
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`More... <https://github.com/search?q=fmtlib&type=Code>`_
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If you are aware of other projects using this library, please let me know
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by `email <mailto:victor.zverovich@gmail.com>`_ or by submitting an
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So why yet another formatting library?
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There are plenty of methods for doing this task, from standard ones like
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the printf family of function and IOStreams to Boost Format library and
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FastFormat. The reason for creating a new library is that every existing
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the printf family of function and iostreams to Boost Format and FastFormat
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libraries. The reason for creating a new library is that every existing
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solution that I found either had serious issues or didn't provide
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all the features I needed.
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Printf
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printf
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~~~~~~
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The good thing about printf is that it is pretty fast and readily available
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The good thing about ``printf`` is that it is pretty fast and readily available
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being a part of the C standard library. The main drawback is that it
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doesn't support user-defined types. Printf also has safety issues although
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they are mostly solved with `__attribute__ ((format (printf, ...))
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doesn't support user-defined types. ``printf`` also has safety issues although
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they are somewhat mitigated with `__attribute__ ((format (printf, ...))
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<http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html>`_ in GCC.
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There is a POSIX extension that adds positional arguments required for
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`i18n <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization>`_
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to printf but it is not a part of C99 and may not be available on some
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to ``printf`` but it is not a part of C99 and may not be available on some
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platforms.
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IOStreams
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iostreams
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~~~~~~~~~
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The main issue with IOStreams is best illustrated with an example:
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The main issue with iostreams is best illustrated with an example:
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.. code:: c++
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printf("%.2f\n", 1.23456);
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Matthew Wilson, the author of FastFormat, referred to this situation with
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IOStreams as "chevron hell". IOStreams doesn't support positional arguments
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by design.
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Matthew Wilson, the author of FastFormat, called this "chevron hell". iostreams
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don't support positional arguments by design.
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The good part is that IOStreams supports user-defined types and is safe
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although error reporting is awkward.
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The good part is that iostreams support user-defined types and are safe although
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error handling is awkward.
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Boost Format library
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Boost Format
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~~~~~~~~~~~~
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This is a very powerful library which supports both printf-like format
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strings and positional arguments. Its main drawback is performance.
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According to various benchmarks it is much slower than other methods
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considered here. Boost Format also has excessive build times and severe
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code bloat issues (see `Benchmarks`_).
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This is a very powerful library which supports both ``printf``-like format
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strings and positional arguments. Its main drawback is performance. According to
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various benchmarks it is much slower than other methods considered here. Boost
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Format also has excessive build times and severe code bloat issues (see
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`Benchmarks`_).
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FastFormat
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~~~~~~~~~~
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It is also quite big and has a heavy dependency, STLSoft, which might be
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too restrictive for using it in some projects.
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Loki SafeFormat
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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SafeFormat is a formatting library which uses printf-like format strings
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and is type safe. It doesn't support user-defined types or positional
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arguments. It makes unconventional use of ``operator()`` for passing
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format arguments.
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Tinyformat
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~~~~~~~~~~
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This library supports printf-like format strings and is very small and
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fast. Unfortunately it doesn't support positional arguments and wrapping
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it in C++98 is somewhat difficult. Also its performance and code compactness
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are limited by IOStreams.
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Boost Spirit.Karma
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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This is not really a formatting library but I decided to include it here
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for completeness. As IOStreams it suffers from the problem of mixing
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verbatim text with arguments. The library is pretty fast, but slower
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on integer formatting than ``fmt::Writer`` on Karma's own benchmark,
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This is not really a formatting library but I decided to include it here for
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completeness. As iostreams, it suffers from the problem of mixing verbatim text
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with arguments. The library is pretty fast, but slower on integer formatting
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than ``fmt::format_int`` on Karma's own benchmark,
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see `Fast integer to string conversion in C++
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<http://zverovich.net/2013/09/07/integer-to-string-conversion-in-cplusplus.html>`_.
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Benchmarks
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----------
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Speed tests
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~~~~~~~~~~~
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The following speed tests results were generated by building
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``tinyformat_test.cpp`` on Ubuntu GNU/Linux 14.04.1 with
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``g++-4.8.2 -O3 -DSPEED_TEST -DHAVE_FORMAT``, and taking the best of three
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runs. In the test, the format string ``"%0.10f:%04d:%+g:%s:%p:%c:%%\n"`` or
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equivalent is filled 2000000 times with output sent to ``/dev/null``; for
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further details see the `source
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<https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark/blob/master/tinyformat_test.cpp>`_.
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================= ============= ===========
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Library Method Run Time, s
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================= ============= ===========
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libc printf 1.35
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libc++ std::ostream 3.42
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fmt 534bff7 fmt::print 1.56
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tinyformat 2.0.1 tfm::printf 3.73
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Boost Format 1.54 boost::format 8.44
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Folly Format folly::format 2.54
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================= ============= ===========
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As you can see ``boost::format`` is much slower than the alternative methods; this
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is confirmed by `other tests <http://accu.org/index.php/journals/1539>`_.
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Tinyformat is quite good coming close to IOStreams. Unfortunately tinyformat
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cannot be faster than the IOStreams because it uses them internally.
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Performance of fmt is close to that of printf, being `faster than printf on integer
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formatting <http://zverovich.net/2013/09/07/integer-to-string-conversion-in-cplusplus.html>`_,
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but slower on floating-point formatting which dominates this benchmark.
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|
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Compile time and code bloat
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||||
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
The script `bloat-test.py
|
||||
<https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark/blob/master/bloat-test.py>`_
|
||||
from `format-benchmark <https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark>`_
|
||||
tests compile time and code bloat for nontrivial projects.
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||||
It generates 100 translation units and uses ``printf()`` or its alternative
|
||||
five times in each to simulate a medium sized project. The resulting
|
||||
executable size and compile time (Apple LLVM version 8.1.0 (clang-802.0.42),
|
||||
macOS Sierra, best of three) is shown in the following tables.
|
||||
|
||||
**Optimized build (-O3)**
|
||||
|
||||
============= =============== ==================== ==================
|
||||
Method Compile Time, s Executable size, KiB Stripped size, KiB
|
||||
============= =============== ==================== ==================
|
||||
printf 2.6 29 26
|
||||
printf+string 16.4 29 26
|
||||
IOStreams 31.1 59 55
|
||||
fmt 19.0 37 34
|
||||
tinyformat 44.0 103 97
|
||||
Boost Format 91.9 226 203
|
||||
Folly Format 115.7 101 88
|
||||
============= =============== ==================== ==================
|
||||
|
||||
As you can see, fmt has 60% less overhead in terms of resulting binary code
|
||||
size compared to IOStreams and comes pretty close to ``printf``. Boost Format
|
||||
and Folly Format have the largest overheads.
|
||||
|
||||
``printf+string`` is the same as ``printf`` but with extra ``<string>``
|
||||
include to measure the overhead of the latter.
|
||||
|
||||
**Non-optimized build**
|
||||
|
||||
============= =============== ==================== ==================
|
||||
Method Compile Time, s Executable size, KiB Stripped size, KiB
|
||||
============= =============== ==================== ==================
|
||||
printf 2.2 33 30
|
||||
printf+string 16.0 33 30
|
||||
IOStreams 28.3 56 52
|
||||
fmt 18.2 59 50
|
||||
tinyformat 32.6 88 82
|
||||
Boost Format 54.1 365 303
|
||||
Folly Format 79.9 445 430
|
||||
============= =============== ==================== ==================
|
||||
|
||||
``libc``, ``lib(std)c++`` and ``libfmt`` are all linked as shared
|
||||
libraries to compare formatting function overhead only. Boost Format
|
||||
and tinyformat are header-only libraries so they don't provide any
|
||||
linkage options.
|
||||
|
||||
Running the tests
|
||||
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
||||
|
||||
Please refer to `Building the library`__ for the instructions on how to build
|
||||
the library and run the unit tests.
|
||||
|
||||
__ http://fmtlib.net/latest/usage.html#building-the-library
|
||||
|
||||
Benchmarks reside in a separate repository,
|
||||
`format-benchmarks <https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark>`_,
|
||||
so to run the benchmarks you first need to clone this repository and
|
||||
generate Makefiles with CMake::
|
||||
|
||||
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark.git
|
||||
$ cd format-benchmark
|
||||
$ cmake .
|
||||
|
||||
Then you can run the speed test::
|
||||
|
||||
$ make speed-test
|
||||
|
||||
or the bloat test::
|
||||
|
||||
$ make bloat-test
|
||||
|
||||
FAQ
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
@ -474,11 +456,11 @@ A: use ``std::tuple``:
|
||||
License
|
||||
-------
|
||||
|
||||
fmt is distributed under the BSD `license
|
||||
{fmt} is distributed under the MIT `license
|
||||
<https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/blob/master/LICENSE.rst>`_.
|
||||
|
||||
The `Format String Syntax
|
||||
<http://fmtlib.net/latest/syntax.html>`_
|
||||
<https://fmt.dev/latest/syntax.html>`_
|
||||
section in the documentation is based on the one from Python `string module
|
||||
documentation <https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#module-string>`_
|
||||
adapted for the current library. For this reason the documentation is
|
||||
@ -490,7 +472,7 @@ It only applies if you distribute the documentation of fmt.
|
||||
Acknowledgments
|
||||
---------------
|
||||
|
||||
The fmt library is maintained by Victor Zverovich (`vitaut
|
||||
The {fmt} library is maintained by Victor Zverovich (`vitaut
|
||||
<https://github.com/vitaut>`_) and Jonathan Müller (`foonathan
|
||||
<https://github.com/foonathan>`_) with contributions from many other people.
|
||||
See `Contributors <https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/graphs/contributors>`_ and
|
||||
@ -507,7 +489,7 @@ Some ideas used in the implementation are borrowed from `Loki
|
||||
<http://clang.llvm.org/doxygen/classclang_1_1Diagnostic.html>`_ in
|
||||
`Clang <http://clang.llvm.org/>`_.
|
||||
Format string syntax and the documentation are based on Python's `str.format
|
||||
<http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`_.
|
||||
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`_.
|
||||
Thanks `Doug Turnbull <https://github.com/softwaredoug>`_ for his valuable
|
||||
comments and contribution to the design of the type-safe API and
|
||||
`Gregory Czajkowski <https://github.com/gcflymoto>`_ for implementing binary
|
||||
|
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