Lexical conversion.

[John Carter]

What is the fastest way under gcc-3.* to convert from an int to a string?

ie. Equivalent to this yucky bit of code...

string convert( int number)
{  
  char line[80];
  sprintf( line, "%ld", number);
  return string(line);
}  

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