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

Here is hax that should make c++ streams as fast as c printf. I never tested it but I believe it works.

ios_base::sync_with_stdio(0);