Notes from C++ static analysis

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Jun 26 15:56:44 PDT 2013


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



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