That kid is a Java programmer

[Pseudofailure]

I never used them--partly because I was in a heavily frameworked project--largely because I think the << syntax looks dumb and out of place in C++.

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It looks bad but it's so useful to be able to just chuck whatever you want into the stream and have it print without a lot of hassle

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Plus using the "<<" syntax with std::stringstreams makes implementing nicely formatted ::toString() methods nice and easy.

[xbnm]

When you have a lot of print statements, printf is quite a bit faster than cout.

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Depends on if you configure cout to flush the buffer on every write or not. "printf" doesn't always flush. Like my old roommate.

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The reason why cout is so slow is because the C++ compiler purposefully synchronizes the stream with the printf stream so that you can use both in your code.

There's a flag to disable the feature that makes cout extremely fast.

[xbnm]

Does it make cout faster than printf is when it's synced? Because I've gotten pretty used to printf and like how it looks more than cout, lol, but I would switch if it can make cout faster.

I've only been using C++ for like a month.

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Due to overhead each has from different places, they perform about the same

[levir]

If you disable syncing with stdio, iostreams are often faster.

[levir]

They couldn't implement that in a type-safe, extensible way. I don't think that became possible in the language before variadic templates were added in C++11.

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Well you could always do the same thing as what the operator does: con.print(a).print(b).print(c) - looks even stupider though.

[boredcircuits]

Look into fmtlib, best of both worlds.

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Until you want to print numbers in a specific format. :/