C++ cout printing slowly

Question

I noticed if I print out a long string(char*) using cout it seems to print 1 character at a time to the screen in Windows 7, Vista, and Linux(using putty) using Visual C++ 2

Answer 1

Try call ios::sync_with_stdio(false); before using std::cout/cin, unless of course, you mix stdio and iostream in your program, which is a bad thing to do.