On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Jeroen Habraken <vexocide@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I'm proud to say I've tagged a version 0.2 of construe_cast some minutes ago. For those unfamiliar with the library (it's the first time I'm posting this to the boost mailinglist), it's a library which builds upon boost.spirit to create a cast-like operator aiming to provide an alternative to lexical_cast providing greater speed and flexibility.
Rather than introducing another casting method, could lexical_cast be reworked internally to build upon Spirit? That way previous investments in lexical_cast will just work faster with no changes, Also, I won't need to stop and think which one I should be using. The other comment I have is about compilation times with Spirit. Would a client of construe_cast be pulling in the Spirit headers? If so, my compiler (VC9/VS2008) would take a lot longer to build the compilation unit. I don't mind this overhead for source files that are using Spriit to do non-trivial parsing, but for casts to/from ints and strings which are very common, I wouldn't want to wait for such long compiles. Regards, Pete