lexical_cast<> constructs and destroys std::stringstream (including dynamic memory allocation/free.) each time a conversion is done.
Maybe specialised version of lexical_cast<> can be developed which takes external, existing stringstream instance as template parameter and reuses it. Very rough idea: template<typename Target, std::stringstream& ss, typename Source> Target lex_cast(Source s) { // clear ss ss << s; Target t; ss >> t; return t; } extern std::stringstream ss; std::stringstream ss; ... int a = 99; std::string s = lex_cast<std::string, ss>(a); /Pavel _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost