Re: [boost] [convert] Boost.Convert Library Review

Subject: Re: [boost] [convert] Boost.Convert Library Review
From: Stewart, Robert (Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-02 13:24:32

Gordon Woodhull wrote:
> On May 2, 2011, at 1:01 PM, "Stewart, Robert"
> <Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Note that performance concerns are out of scope of
> >> Boost.Convert.
> >
> > Why?
>
> Because the author chose not to address them. It's not a more
> efficient alternative. It's just a more powerful (if wacky)
> interface.

I disagree.  A first implementation of a library not about performance typically doesn't include many optimizations.  That said, the string-to-bool converter forgoes streams to gain specialized behavior.  Perhaps that wasn't purposely to get performance, but it reveals the intent that streams are not necessarily the means to the end.

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