What is the most efficient way to do type conversions?

[copthesaint]

I was wondering what is the most efficient (fastest) way of doing type conversions, Over the last year I have seen two main things people generally choose to use from reading online posts, they use a library called [
url=http://www.boost.org/]Boost[/url] or use StringStream. My question is what is the most efficient (again meaning how fast the conversion can be done) way to convert types.

[Tony]

well you could take the two methods and benchmark them against each other...

is your performance bottleneck really in type conversions?

[copthesaint]

Well its not so much that I'm worried about performance being significantly effected by any type conversions with what I am doing, its that I like both methods for type conversions, however I was hoping there was a general consensus of which one was more reliable && faster. I guess my choice is only dependent on my preference then?

[Tony]

Go with your preference.

Going out of your way for insignificant performance gains is also known as "premature optimization" and is generally a bad thing.