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Taking the Boost library for a single cast. :(

Chad Stewart
– Chad Stewart

2010-01-13 20:29:59 +00:00
Commented Jan 13, 2010 at 20:29
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But if you're already using Boost, it's a freebie.

Chris K
– Chris K

2010-05-30 13:50:32 +00:00
Commented May 30, 2010 at 13:50
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boost::lexical_cast is painfully slow. Do not use it if performance is important.

Matthieu N.
– Matthieu N.

2010-11-02 05:02:56 +00:00
Commented Nov 2, 2010 at 5:02
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I think worrying about that is premature optimization in most cases. It wouldn't stop me from using it unless my profiler told me otherwise.

Leon Timmermans
– Leon Timmermans

2010-11-04 18:22:31 +00:00
Commented Nov 4, 2010 at 18:22
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Painfully slow? Where did you get that? It actually performs rather well! boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/doc/html/boost_lexical_cast/…

kralyk
– kralyk

2012-04-27 23:34:05 +00:00
Commented Apr 27, 2012 at 23:34

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