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