Very poor boost::lexical_cast performance

Question

Windows XP SP3. Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz. I\'m finding the boost::lexical_cast performance to be extremely slow. Wanted to find out ways to speed up the code. Using /O2 optimizati

Answer 1

if speed is a concern, or you are just interested in how fast such casts can be with C++, there's an interested thread regarding it.

Boost.Spirit 2.1(which is to be released with Boost 1.40) seems to be very fast, even faster than the C equivalents(strtol(), atoi() etc. ).