feb-2002 libstdc++ outstanding

[Benjamin Kosnik]

> ps. IMHO efficiency is a real hard requirement. in almost our project
> where we reach a point when we have to optimize the code, the first 
> thing is always to remove all c++ stream handling. ok in most case
> it's on windows with msvc's stream library which is an order slower 
> than gcc's stdc++ stream library, but it's still faster to use C
> io library on linux too.

Yep. I'm going to start looking at this in a bit.

-benjamin