Boost lexical_cast Performance

[S6k9GNh0]

I just found this interesting: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/doc/html/boost_lexical_cast/performance.html#boost_lexical_cast.performance.gnu_c___version_4_6_3

I wonder what happened to coerce_cast and I wonder why lexical_cast falls behind on floating point conversions... Aside from that, it makes sense to start trying to make lexical_cast a de facto in even the most basic of conversions.

[Cubbi]

I wonder what happened to coerce_cast

Are you referring to boost::coerce? It was someone's GSoC project to use boost.spirit as the backend for lexical_cast. I don't think it ever left the sandbox: http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/coerce/