Std::fstream buffering vs manual buffering (why 10x gain with manual buffering)?

This is basically due to function call overhead and indirection. The ofstream::write() method is inherited from ostream. That function is not inlined in libstdc++, which is the first source of overhead.

Then ostream::write() has to call rdbuf()->sputn() to do the actual writing, which is a virtual function call.

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