On 6/26/2013 3:56 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/26/2013 2:47 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
I have been an adept of iostreams since day one and never understood why people
complain so much about them or the operator<< and operator>>
for that matter.
Even if you can get past the execrable look of it, it suffers from at least 3
terrible technical problems:
1. not thread safe
2. not exception safe
3. having to acquire/release mutexes for every << operation rather than once for
the whole expression
Oh, and the cake topper is IOStreams performs badly, too.
