Re: [boost] [lexical_cast] performace patch

From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro_prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-12 11:05:39

On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:18:14 +0200, Gennaro Prota
<gennaro_prota_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>My memory on this is quite blurred, but long time ago Terje Slettebo
>did a complete rewrite of lexical_cast<>, in this direction (I haven't
>looked at your code though). In the end, however, the current solution
>was preferred, I guess for its simplicity.

I have to say that, now that a standardization proposal exists for it,
which explicitly hints at optimized specializations, your idea is
definitely worth applying regardless of what was done illo tempore.

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