quote: Original post by Oluseyi
Stream I/O was designed for a reason - it makes most tasks simpler, so why not use it? (There''s no noticeable performance gain or loss either way)...
That wholly depends on the compiler and the run time libraries it uses. MSVC''s stream libraries are slower than their C i/o libraries with a large enough data set (we won''t get into MSVC''s STL, heh). GCC''s stream libraries are about the same speed (I haven''t personally tested GCC, but I trust the person who told me that
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