id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc 6663,Avoiding input copying,Olaf van der Spek ,Antony Polukhin,"I think lexical_cast is optimized for std::string, as shown at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/doc/html/boost_lexical_cast/performance.html Is it possible to take advantage of this optimization for other string types as well? For example, by providing an overload for (const char*, size_t)?",Feature Requests,closed,Boost 1.52.0,lexical_cast,Boost 1.48.0,Problem,fixed,,