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{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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`Documentation <http://fmtlib.net/latest/>`__
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This is a development branch that implements the C++ standards proposal `P0645
Text Formatting <http://fmtlib.net/Text%20Formatting.html>`__.
Released versions are available from the `Releases page
<https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/releases>`__.
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Features
--------
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* Replacement-based `format API <http://fmtlib.net/dev/api.html>`_ with
positional arguments for localization.
* `Format string syntax <http://fmtlib.net/dev/syntax.html>`_ similar to the one
of `str.format <https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`_
in Python.
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* Safe `printf implementation
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<http://fmtlib.net/latest/api.html#printf-formatting-functions>`_ including
the POSIX extension for positional arguments.
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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
<http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fprintf>`_ and better than the
performance of IOStreams. See `Speed tests`_ and
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`Fast integer to string conversion in C++
<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
consists of just three header files, ``core.h``, ``format.h`` and
``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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* Safety: the library is fully type safe, errors in format strings can be
reported at compile time, automatic memory management prevents buffer overflow
errors.
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* Ease of use: small self-contained code base, no external dependencies,
permissive BSD `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
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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Examples
--------
This prints ``Hello, world!`` to stdout:
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fmt::print("Hello, {}!", "world"); // uses Python-like format string syntax
fmt::printf("Hello, %s!", "world"); // uses printf format string syntax
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Arguments can be accessed by position and arguments' indices can be repeated:
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std::string s = fmt::format("{0}{1}{0}", "abra", "cad");
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// s == "abracadabra"
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Format strings can be checked at compile time:
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// test.cc
#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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.. code::
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$ c++ -Iinclude -std=c++14 test.cc
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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);
^
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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include/fmt/format.h:2226:16: note: in call to '&checker.context_->on_error(&"argument index out of range"[0])'
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context_.on_error("argument index out of range");
^
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{fmt} can be used as a safe portable replacement for ``itoa``
(`godbolt <https://godbolt.org/g/NXmpU4>`_):
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fmt::memory_buffer buf;
format_to(buf, "{}", 42); // replaces itoa(42, buffer, 10)
format_to(buf, "{:x}", 42); // replaces itoa(42, buffer, 16)
// access the string using to_string(buf) or buf.data()
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Formatting of user-defined types is supported via a simple
`extension API <http://fmtlib.net/latest/api.html#formatting-user-defined-types>`_:
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#include "fmt/format.h"
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struct date {
int year, month, day;
};
template <>
struct fmt::formatter<date> {
template <typename ParseContext>
constexpr auto parse(ParseContext &ctx) { return ctx.begin(); }
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template <typename FormatContext>
auto format(const date &d, FormatContext &ctx) {
return format_to(ctx.begin(), "{}-{}-{}", d.year, d.month, d.day);
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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
`print <http://fmtlib.net/latest/api.html#print>`_
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which take arbitrary arguments (`godbolt <https://godbolt.org/g/MHjHVf>`_):
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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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fmt::print("Error: ");
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fmt::vprint(format, args);
}
template <typename... Args>
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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report_error("file not found: {}", path);
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Note that ``vreport_error`` is not parameterized on argument types which can
improve compile times and reduce code size compared to fully parameterized version.
Projects using this library
---------------------------
* `0 A.D. <http://play0ad.com/>`_: A free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy game
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* `AMPL/MP <https://github.com/ampl/mp>`_:
An open-source library for mathematical programming
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* `AvioBook <https://www.aviobook.aero/en>`_: A comprehensive aircraft operations suite
* `CUAUV <http://cuauv.org/>`_: Cornell University's autonomous underwater vehicle
* `HarpyWar/pvpgn <https://github.com/pvpgn/pvpgn-server>`_:
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Player vs Player Gaming Network with tweaks
* `KBEngine <http://kbengine.org/>`_: An open-source MMOG server engine
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* `Keypirinha <http://keypirinha.com/>`_: A semantic launcher for Windows
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* `Kodi <https://kodi.tv/>`_ (formerly xbmc): Home theater software
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* `Lifeline <https://github.com/peter-clark/lifeline>`_: A 2D game
* `Drake <http://drake.mit.edu/>`_: A planning, control, and analysis toolbox
for nonlinear dynamical systems (MIT)
* `Envoy <https://lyft.github.io/envoy/>`_: C++ L7 proxy and communication bus
(Lyft)
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* `FiveM <https://fivem.net/>`_: a modification framework for GTA V
* `MongoDB Smasher <https://github.com/duckie/mongo_smasher>`_: A small tool to
generate randomized datasets
* `OpenSpace <http://openspaceproject.com/>`_: An open-source astrovisualization
framework
* `PenUltima Online (POL) <http://www.polserver.com/>`_:
An MMO server, compatible with most Ultima Online clients
* `quasardb <https://www.quasardb.net/>`_: A distributed, high-performance,
associative database
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* `readpe <https://bitbucket.org/sys_dev/readpe>`_: Read Portable Executable
* `redis-cerberus <https://github.com/HunanTV/redis-cerberus>`_: A Redis cluster proxy
* `Saddy <https://github.com/mamontov-cpp/saddy-graphics-engine-2d>`_:
Small crossplatform 2D graphic engine
* `Salesforce Analytics Cloud <http://www.salesforce.com/analytics-cloud/overview/>`_:
Business intelligence software
* `Scylla <http://www.scylladb.com/>`_: A Cassandra-compatible NoSQL data store that can handle
1 million transactions per second on a single server
* `Seastar <http://www.seastar-project.org/>`_: An advanced, open-source C++ framework for
high-performance server applications on modern hardware
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* `spdlog <https://github.com/gabime/spdlog>`_: Super fast C++ logging library
* `Stellar <https://www.stellar.org/>`_: Financial platform
* `Touch Surgery <https://www.touchsurgery.com/>`_: Surgery simulator
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* `TrinityCore <https://github.com/TrinityCore/TrinityCore>`_: Open-source MMORPG framework
`More... <https://github.com/search?q=cppformat&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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`issue <https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/issues>`_.
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Motivation
----------
So why yet another formatting library?
There are plenty of methods for doing this task, from standard ones like
the printf family of function and IOStreams to Boost Format library and
FastFormat. The reason for creating a new library is that every existing
solution that I found either had serious issues or didn't provide
all the features I needed.
Printf
~~~~~~
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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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<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
`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
platforms.
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IOStreams
~~~~~~~~~
The main issue with IOStreams is best illustrated with an example:
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std::cout << std::setprecision(2) << std::fixed << 1.23456 << "\n";
which is a lot of typing compared to printf:
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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
by design.
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The good part is that IOStreams supports user-defined types and is safe
although error reporting is awkward.
Boost Format library
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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
considered here. Boost Format also has excessive build times and severe
code bloat issues (see `Benchmarks`_).
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FastFormat
~~~~~~~~~~
This is an interesting library which is fast, safe and has positional
arguments. However it has significant limitations, citing its author:
Three features that have no hope of being accommodated within the
current design are:
* Leading zeros (or any other non-space padding)
* Octal/hexadecimal encoding
* Runtime width/alignment specification
It is also quite big and has a heavy dependency, STLSoft, which might be
too restrictive for using it in some projects.
Loki SafeFormat
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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SafeFormat is a formatting library which uses printf-like format strings
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
~~~~~~~~~~
This library supports printf-like format strings and is very small and
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
are limited by IOStreams.
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Boost Spirit.Karma
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is not really a formatting library but I decided to include it here
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
on integer formatting than ``fmt::Writer`` on Karma's own benchmark,
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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Speed tests
~~~~~~~~~~~
The following speed tests results were generated by building
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``tinyformat_test.cpp`` on Ubuntu GNU/Linux 14.04.1 with
``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
equivalent is filled 2000000 times with output sent to ``/dev/null``; for
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
libc++ std::ostream 3.42
fmt 534bff7 fmt::print 1.56
tinyformat 2.0.1 tfm::printf 3.73
Boost Format 1.54 boost::format 8.44
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
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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Compile time and code bloat
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The script `bloat-test.py
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<https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark/blob/master/bloat-test.py>`_
from `format-benchmark <https://github.com/fmtlib/format-benchmark>`_
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tests compile time and code bloat for nontrivial projects.
It generates 100 translation units and uses ``printf()`` or its alternative
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),
macOS Sierra, best of three) is shown in the following tables.
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**Optimized build (-O3)**
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============= =============== ==================== ==================
Method Compile Time, s Executable size, KiB Stripped size, KiB
============= =============== ==================== ==================
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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
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============= =============== ==================== ==================
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
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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>``
include to measure the overhead of the latter.
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**Non-optimized build**
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============= =============== ==================== ==================
Method Compile Time, s Executable size, KiB Stripped size, KiB
============= =============== ==================== ==================
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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
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============= =============== ==================== ==================
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``libc``, ``lib(std)c++`` and ``libfmt`` are all linked as shared
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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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Please refer to `Building the library`__ for the instructions on how to build
the library and run the unit tests.
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__ http://fmtlib.net/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
$ cmake .
Then you can run the speed test::
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$ make speed-test
or the bloat test::
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$ make bloat-test
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FAQ
---
Q: how can I capture formatting arguments and format them later?
A: use ``std::tuple``:
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template <typename... Args>
auto capture(const Args&... args) {
return std::make_tuple(args...);
}
auto print_message = [](const auto&... args) {
fmt::print(args...);
};
// Capture and store arguments:
auto args = capture("{} {}", 42, "foo");
// Do formatting:
std::apply(print_message, args);
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License
-------
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fmt is distributed under the BSD `license
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<https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/blob/master/LICENSE.rst>`_.
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The `Format String Syntax
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<http://fmtlib.net/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
distributed under the Python Software Foundation license available in
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`doc/python-license.txt
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<https://raw.github.com/fmtlib/fmt/master/doc/python-license.txt>`_.
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It only applies if you distribute the documentation of fmt.
Acknowledgments
---------------
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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
`Releases <https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt/releases>`_ for some of the names.
Let us know if your contribution is not listed or mentioned incorrectly and
we'll make it right.
The benchmark section of this readme file and the performance tests are taken
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from the excellent `tinyformat <https://github.com/c42f/tinyformat>`_ library
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written by Chris Foster. Boost Format library is acknowledged transitively
since it had some influence on tinyformat.
Some ideas used in the implementation are borrowed from `Loki
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<http://loki-lib.sourceforge.net/>`_ SafeFormat and `Diagnostic API
<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
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<http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#str.format>`_.
Thanks `Doug Turnbull <https://github.com/softwaredoug>`_ for his valuable
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comments and contribution to the design of the type-safe API and
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`Gregory Czajkowski <https://github.com/gcflymoto>`_ for implementing binary
formatting. Thanks `Ruslan Baratov <https://github.com/ruslo>`_ for comprehensive
`comparison of integer formatting algorithms <https://github.com/ruslo/int-dec-format-tests>`_
and useful comments regarding performance, `Boris Kaul <https://github.com/localvoid>`_ for
`C++ counting digits benchmark <https://github.com/localvoid/cxx-benchmark-count-digits>`_.
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Thanks to `CarterLi <https://github.com/CarterLi>`_ for contributing various
improvements to the code.