Re: charconv for C++11

From: Matt Borland (matt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-05-11 16:28:12

On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 17:16, Andrey Semashev via Boost <[boost_at_[hidden]](mailto:On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 17:16, Andrey Semashev via Boost <<a href=)> wrote:

> On 5/11/23 17:40, Matt Borland via Boost wrote:
>>> How is this different from boost lexical cast?
>>
>> Robert,
>>
>> Charconv has a much smaller scope than lexical cast. We convert character arrays into built-in arithmetic types and vice versa. That’s it. Since it has such a narrow scope we can heavily optimize these conversions, which we have sunk a lot of time and effort into.
>
> I remember there were a lot of optimizations poured into
> Boost.Spirit.Qi/Karma. How does your library compare to those
> implementations?
>
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Andrey,

Frankly I’ve never looked at Boost.Spirit before. I can add comparison benchmarks to the charconv docs.

Matt