----- Original Message ----- From: "Antony Polukhin" <antoshkka@gmail.com> ... But a lot of libraries (even in boost) use lexical_cast. And performance improvemnts will be appreciated. Patches only add performance, and there can be done some more improvements (for float types conversion). So the quiestion with applying patches is still open.
By no means I tried to suggest abandoning/ignoring lexical_cast. I am sure it'll stick around for quite some time no matter what. I only tried to raise your awareness of the fact that similar requests/suggestions/attempts have been made in the past and for a number of reasons the overwhelming view on this list was that it was better to leave lexical_cast as-is and to start fresh. That said, Boost libraries do use lexical_cast and I am sure would benefit from any improvements in it. Just be prepared that those improvements might be limited to the under-the-hood implementation and that the interface (my biggest gripe) improvements might be ruled out. That was my (and people before me) experience anyway. V.