This is not related to C++ or any language.
Libraries are utility functions - written once and used by many applications.
System calls are calls into operating system to perform functions that only an OS can do.
Certain library functions, like printf(), end up calling a system functions to send the buffer to the output device.
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there is a context switch associated with a system call
- Anonymous January 03, 2010