FASTreams by Maciej Sobczak

[Alex Vinokur]

FASTreams by Maciej Sobczak
http://www.msobczak.com/prog/fastreams/

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What is FASTreams?

FASTreams is an I/O stream-like library for C++, intended to be a
really fast replacement for standard IOStreams.
The idea to write FASTreams was driven by the fact that standard
IOStreams library is most often used in a way that does not justify the
run-time costs of its internal mechanisms.

Let's say that 90% of the time programmers use only 10% of the
IOStreams' functionality, but they always have to pay 100% of its
price.

FASTreams are written in a way that promotes very aggressive code
inlining in current compilers (tested on g++ 3.4.2) - dynamic binding
is avoided and static compile-time techniques are used intensively to
achieve the maximum performance.

At the moment, FASTreams should be treated as an experimental library,
which is rather a feasibility study than an industry-strong solution
(well, IOStreams is...).
However, it works in those 90% cases mentioned above - and does it fast
- see performance test results.
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Alex Vinokur
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