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Re: std::cin, std::cerr, std::clog behaviour


On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:12:08AM +1000, Gary Hughes wrote:
> I have recently upgraded from gcc 2.9.3 to gcc 3.3 and have noticed a
> difference in the behaviour of these streams I was not expecting.
> 
> Under 2.95.3 writing a string such as "blah blah" to any of these streams
> would result in a single call to write(). Under 3.3 this behaviour is the
> same for std::cout, but std::cerr and std::clog call write() for each
> character in the string.

Does your program call std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false) before
performing any I/O?

In any case, most of the effort that has gone into optimizing I/O in 
libstdc++ will bear fruit in the gcc-3.4 release.  Earlier 3.x releases 
have had (decreasingly) embarassing performance.  

Nathan Myers
ncm@cantrip.org


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