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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> writes:
> Being slower than equivalent C (or C++, where you will find the
> std::getline function) is not the right way to compete.

std::getline is actually pathetically slow for some reason.  I replaced
it with the C library fgets in a program that did a lot of line input,
and it sped up the whole program by several times.