Re: [boost] [lexical_cast] efficiency

Subject: Re: [boost] [lexical_cast] efficiency
From: Domagoj Saric (dsaritz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-01-19 15:58:19

"OvermindDL1" <overminddl1_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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> ...Although you can still do that pretty easily with Spirit2...

Wow...cool :) thanks for the examples ;)

> Boost.Lexical_cast is made for simplicity, not speed, although much of
> it could certainly be sped up if Boost.Spirit become part of its
> back-end, and with some template magic it can even fall back to
> stringstream if spirit does not know how to parse it directly (thus
> you would need to supply a grammar).

My thoughts exactly (no need to 'break-change' the interface...only change the
implementation)...

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