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* Implementation of the ISO C++ standards proposal `P0645
Text Formatting <http://fmtlib.net/Text%20Formatting.html>`__.
* Support for user-defined types.
-* High speed: performance of the format API is close to that of glibc's `printf
- <http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fprintf>`_ and better than the
- performance of IOStreams. See `Speed tests`_ and
- `Fast integer to string conversion in C++
+* High performance: faster than common standard library implementations of
+ `printf <http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/fprintf>`_ and
+ IOStreams. See `Speed tests`_ and `Fast integer to string conversion in C++
<http://zverovich.net/2013/09/07/integer-to-string-conversion-in-cplusplus.html>`_.
* Small code size both in terms of source code (the minimum configuration
consists of just three header files, ``core.h``, ``format.h`` and