Re: [boost] lexical_cast optimization

Subject: Re: [boost] lexical_cast optimization
From: Othman, Ossama (ossama.othman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-03 14:11:11

Hi,

>Please do not proceed at the expense of error handling. I believe using
>itoa
>and ftoa is fine, but using atoi and atof is definitely not:
>
>   cout << atoi("123X")   prints 123
>   cout << atoi("X")      prints 0
>
>lexical_cast<int> throws in both cases, which I think is 100% the correct
>behaviour.

Would strtol() and friends be suitable from a performance point of view?  They at least provide some error reporting.

-Ossama