Not only is iostream bloated, but it often injects a static constructor into every translation unit (which visibly angers the – usually calm – LLVM style guide[

Not only is iostream bloated, but it often injects a static constructor into every translation unit (which visibly angers the – usually calm – LLVM style guide[1]). Oh and it's really godawfully slow unless you turn off a magic flag somewhere[2]. Friends don't let friends use iostream. [1]: http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html#ll_iostream http://llvm.org/docs/CodingStandards.html#ll_iostream [2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9371238/why-is-reading-lines-from-stdin-much-slower-in-c-than-python/9371717#9371717 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9371238/why-is-reading-li...