Re: [boost] [lexical cast] Performance improvements

Subject: Re: [boost] [lexical cast] Performance improvements
From: Stewart, Robert (Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-21 08:28:48

Antony Polukhin wrote:
>
> Working with Boost Lexical Cast library found that some casts
> are working really slow.
[snip]
> So I wrote patch to Boost Lexical Cast library, that returns
[snip]
> It gives performance boost more than 10 times in case 1) ,
> about 7 times in case 2), and about 1.5 times in cases 3) and
> 4).

Nice.

> Patch was successfully tested on Intel 11.1.072, g++-4.4.5,
> VC++9 compilers.
>
> P.S.: I`m a newbie here, so where shall I send this patch?
> Shall I test it on other compilers?

That set of compilers should be sufficient.  Refer to <http://www.boost.org/support/bugs.html> for information on submitting patches.

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