Chapter 5: Input/Output Operations
This chapter will expand upon the CLI application started in the last chapter with a focus on input/output (IO) operations. It will cover the following topics:
- Supporting terminal-based IO such as STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR
- Supporting additional IO
- Performance testing
- Explaining IO behavior
By the end of this chapter, you should have a working understanding of IO operations, including how to use them and how they behave. With these concepts, you will be able to build interactive, efficient stream-based algorithms that could be used in a variety of applications. Knowing how IO behaves will also set you up for understanding more advanced concepts that will be covered in future chapters, such as Chapter 6, Concurrency ...
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