id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 9648 string construction optimization - std::char_traits::copy could be used to avoid char by char copying Adam Romanek Ion Gaztañaga "As discussed on boost-users mailing list (see ""[container.string] why isn't memcpy used in the internals?""), the performance of constructing boost::container::string from C string is a lot worse than in case of std::string. That's because boost::container::string does not use std::char_traits::copy for input C string copying but rather copies it character by character. Environment: - Ubuntu 12.04 (i386) - gcc 4.6.4 - Boost 1.54.0" Bugs closed To Be Determined container Boost 1.54.0 Optimization fixed