Could you use FILE* instead, and the measure the performance you've gained?
A couple of options is to use fwrite/write instead of fstream:
#include <stdio.h>
int main ()
{
FILE * pFile;
char buffer[] = { 'x' , 'y' , 'z' };
pFile = fopen ( "myfile.bin" , "w+b" );
fwrite (buffer , 1 , sizeof(buffer) , pFile );
fclose (pFile);
return 0;
}
If you decide to use write, try something similar:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
int main(void)
{
int filedesc = open("testfile.txt", O_WRONLY | O_APPEND);
if (filedesc < 0) {
return -1;
}
if (write(filedesc, "This will be output to testfile.txt\n", 36) != 36) {
write(2, "There was an error writing to testfile.txt\n", 43);
return -1;
}
return 0;
}
I would also advice you to look into memory map. That may be your answer. Once I had to process a 20GB file in other to store it in the database, and the file as not even opening. So the solution as to utilize moemory map. I did that in Python though.