overloading operators for I/O

[Michiel]

Bill Baxter wrote:

>> But it has the added advantage that there is no need for run-time
>> parsing of that string. C++ parses all << stuff at compile time.
>>
> 
> I wonder how much difference that makes given that most IO tends to be
> slow anyway.   On a 1 GHz proc, with a disk that has 10msec seek time
> that means a hit to the disk can cost you ten million cycles, right?
> 
> Spending a few cycles to parse a format string at runtime isn't going to
> kill you.

Well, you're right of course. But strictly speaking it's still an
advantage. ;)

-- 
Michiel