whats really the difference between the two? is there advatanage of using one over the other? i know that cin.get() will work on other OS like linux too and that system("pause") only works on windows, from my experience that is. but is one faster than the other?
Faster??? I don't think it makes much difference how many nanoseconds it takes a computer to wait for a human to hit a key.
... Just saying.
Read up on the subject through Bazzy's links but you'll probably find your editor has this function built-in. In MS Visual C++ it's "Start Without Debugging" (cntl-F5).