[Performance] std.conv.toInt is damn fast!

pragma ericanderton at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 11 14:03:05 PST 2006


Andrey Khropov wrote:
> Burton Radons wrote:
> 13) MS VC++ 8.0 
>    (boost 1.33.1::lexical_cast<int>)			- 51.700 sec (Yes, it's hard to believe
> but check yourself!)

<neo>Whoa.</neo>

You'd think that with all that templating going on it would simply 
unroll into a *faster* routine, not something that runs *two whole 
orders of magnitude* slower.

BTW, you may have just sounded the call to compile some performance 
comparisons of D Templates and portions of Boost.



More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list