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Question about differences in standard I/O optimization for cin and cout

As a competitive programmer, I've always used ios::sync_with_stdio(0); to speed up cin and cout. But I've also seen other people use optimizations like cin.sync_with_stdio(0); or cout.sync_with_stdio(0);. For example, the latter two were used in this website: https://usaco.guide/general/fast-io?lang=cpp.

I know that ios::sync_with_stdio(0); unsyncs iostream(cin and cout) from stdio(scanf and printf), so why would someone unsync only the input cin or only the output cout when doing competitive programming (which usually has a large amount of both input and output)?

Solution

  • sync_with_stdio is a static method, cin.sync_with_stdio(0) does "exactly" the same as ios::sync_with_stdio(0);.

    Not really exactly as it odr-uses std::cin but it is no-op.