Re: [boost] [lexical_cast] optimization commited to HEAD

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-27 10:29:35

Janek Kozicki wrote:
> Alexander Nasonov said:     (by the date of Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:27:23 +0000)
> 
>> Hello,
>> I recently commited the version 1.26 of lexical_cast.hpp
>> that optimizes many combinations of types.
>>
>> How it works:
>>
>> The lexical_cast reserves a local buffer for bool, char, wchar_t
>> and other integral types. 
> 
> great, but is this code thread safe? Think about several different
> threads calling lexical_cast<> simultaneously. Will this local buffer
> get mangled in such situation?

The current lexical_cast makes no claim of thread safety so why would you 
expect an optimization to?

Jeff