As discussed in this
thread
stream ctors in thread-safe builds are inefficient due to the initialization of the mutex data member in every stream, even in those that never use it. As soon as binary compatibility rules permit it we should remove the mutex and/or defer its initialization until it's needed. It might be possible to implement the deferred initialization as early as 4.2.2, or maybe 4.3. Complete removal will need to wait until 5.0.
Improvement
Open
Critical
sstream ctors inefficient in reentrant modes
