stdio performance in tango, stdlib, and perl

[torhu]

Roberto Mariottini wrote:
<snip>
> The portable way to write a newline in C++ is to use the 'endl'
> modifier.
> Your program is not portable, on Windows it will generate Unix text files.
> 
> Ciao

Unless a file is opened in binary mode, '\n' will be translated into 
'\r\n' on Windows.  And stdin, stdout, stderr is by default in ascii 
(not binary) mode.