Output methods

[pzratnog]

I know of (at least) two methods for writing information to files, one being the

...>>"Stuff to write" >>endl;

method and the other which uses the cstdio library, for example

fprintf(outfile, "Stuff to write");

Since both can give output, why are there two methods, and most importantly, which is the fastest and better for binary output?

[Turbine]

Neither of them are particularly efficient, they both are flexible in their own ways. Output streams "<<" not can extract data from defined stream function for that particular data type/class. "fprintf(...)" Allows the flexibility to use many different data types and format them.

ofstream outfile ("new.txt", ofstream::binary);
outfile.write(data, size);
outfile.close();

Is fast, you just have to handle any conversions and the formatting yourself.