FastFormat 0.4.2

Installing FastFormat: The distribution is in the form of a zip file, e.g. fastformat-0.2.1.zip which you should extract (recursively) to a location of your choice, e.g. ~/opensrc/fastformat/0.2, you should define the FASTFORMAT_ROOT environment variable to be this directory.
FastFormat depends on one other project, STLSoft, which is 100% header-only. If you wish to build the example and test programs included in the distribution using the makefiles supplied, you will need to have defined the STLSOFT environment variable to be the root directory of the STLSoft include files.
FastFormat is written in standard C++, and should be compilable with any modern C/C++ compiler that provides an implementation of the C & C++ standard libraries.

Benefits:

• Ultimate robustness!
• Unlimited flexibility!
• Unbeatable performance!
• • 5 - 17 times faster than Boost.Format
  • 1.5 - 5.5 times faster than Loki.SafeFormat

Major Features:

1. Very high robustness, including 100% type-safety. It is more robust than: Cs Streams, C++s IOStreams, Boost.Format and Loki.SafeFormat. Indeed, with the FastFormat.Write API it is impossible to write defective client code!
2. Very high efficiency. It is faster than: C++s IOStreams (by ~100-900%), Boost.Format (by ~400-1600%) and Loki.SafeFormat (by ~35-450%)
3. Infinite extensibility. You can extend it to work with any argument type, any output/destination type, and with any format type
4. I18N/L10N capabilities. The FastFormat.Format API is a replacement-based API (like the printf()-family, Boost.Format and Loki.SafeFormat), and supports the runtime specification of format strings which facilitates L10N
5. Simple syntax. There are no overloaded operators, no weird insertion operators/operations, and no need to prep your arguments. Just write simple, clear, transparent code, without sacrificing expressiveness for flexibility.
6. Atomic operation. It doesnt write out statement elements one at a time, like the IOStreams, so has no atomicity issues
7. Thread safety. Each statement operates independently from all others, and it works successfully in single and/or multithreaded scenarios
8. Highly portable. It will work with all good modern C++ compilers; it even works with Visual C++ 6!

Enhancements:

• Numerous minor adjustments to make files (including those not fully merged from 0.3 branch in 0.4.1)
• Corrected 0.4.1 failure to bundle xTests 0.13.x
• NOTE: bundles xTests 0.13.2
• NOTE: depends on STLSoft 1.9.85

Requirements: STLSoft