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:Author: Andrey Semashev
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:Download: `Boost Vault <http://tinyurl.com/cm9lum>`__
:Description: The library is aimed to help adding logging features to
   applications. It provides out-of-box support for many widely used
   capabilities, such as formatting and filtering based on attributes,
   sending logs to a syslog server or to Windows Event Log, or simply
   storing logs into files. It also provides basic support for the
   library initialization from a settings file. The library can also be
   used for a wider range of tasks and implement gathering and processing
   statistical information or notifying user about application events.
Join
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:Author: Yigong Liu
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: http://channel.sourceforge.net/
:Description: Join is an asynchronous, message based C++ concurrency
   library based on join calculus. It is applicable both to
   multi-threaded applications and to the orchestration of asynchronous,
   event-based applications. It follows Comega's design and
   implementation and builds with Boost facilities. It provides a high
   level concurrency API with asynchronous methods, synchronous methods,
   and chords which are "join-patterns" defining the synchronization,
   asynchrony, and concurrency.
Pimpl
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:Author: Vladimir Batov
:Review Manager: Needed
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            | http://www.ddj.com/cpp/205918714 (documentation)
:Description: The Pimpl idiom is a simple yet robust technique to
   minimize coupling via the separation of interface and implementation
   and then implementation hiding.  This library provides a convenient
   yet flexible and generic deployment technique for the Pimpl idiom.
   It's seemingly complete and broadly applicable, yet minimal, simple
   and pleasant to use.
Task
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:Author: Oliver Kowalke
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:Description:
   Formerly called Thread Pool
   The library provides:
     - thread creation policies: determines the management of worker 
threads:
        - fixed set of threads in pool
        - create workerthreads on demand (depending on context)
        - let worker threads ime out after certain idle time
     - channel policies: manages access to queued tasks:
        - bounded channel with high and low watermark for queuing tasks
        - unbounded channel with unlimited number of queued tasks
        - rendezvous syncron hand-over between producer and consumer threads
     - queueing policy: determines how tasks will be removed from channel:
        - FIFO
        - LIFO
        - priority queue (attribute assigned to task)
        - smart insertions and extractions (for instance remove oldest 
task with          certain attribute by newst one)
     - tasks can be chained and lazy submit of taks is also supported 
(thanks to
       Braddocks future library).
     - returns a task object from the submit function. The task it self can
       be interrupted if its is cooperative (means it has some 
interruption points
       in its code -> ``this_thread::interruption_point()`` ).
Endian
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:Author: Beman Dawes
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: http://mysite.verizon.net/beman/endian-0.10.zip
:Description:
Conversion
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:Author: Vicente Botet
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:Description:
   Generic explicit conversion between unrelated types.
   Boost.Conversion provides:
    * a generic ``convert_to`` function which can be specialized by the 
user to
      make explicit conversion between unrelated types.
    * a generic ``assign_to`` function which can be specialized by the 
user to
      make explicit assignation between unrelated types.
    * conversion between ``std::complex`` of explicitly convertible types.
    * conversion between ``std::pair`` of explicitly convertible types.
    * conversion between ``boost::optional`` of explicitly convertible 
types.
    * conversion between ``boost::rational`` of explicitly convertible 
types.
    * conversion between ``boost::interval`` of explicitly convertible 
types.
    * conversion between ``boost::chrono::time_point`` and ``boost::ptime``.
    * conversion between ``boost::chrono::duration`` and 
``boost::time_duration``.
Sorting
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:Author: Steven Ross
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:Description:
   A grouping of 3 templated hybrid radix/comparison-based sorting
   algorithms that provide superior worst-case and average-case
   performance to std::sort: integer_sort, which sorts fixed-size data
   types that support a rightshift (default of >>) and a comparison
   (default of <) operator.  float_sort, which sorts standard
   floating-point numbers by safely casting them to integers.
   string_sort, which sorts variable-length data types, and is optimized
   for 8-bit character strings.
   All 3 algorithms have O(n(k/s + s)) runtime where k is the number of
   bits in the data type and s is a constant, and limited memory overhead
   (in the kB for realistic inputs).  In testing, integer_sort varies
   from 35% faster to 8X as fast as std::sort, depending on processor,
   compiler optimizations, and data distribution.  float_sort is roughly
   7X as fast as std::sort on x86 processors.  string_sort is roughly 2X
   as fast as std::sort.
GIL.IO
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:Author: Christian Henning
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: `GIL Google Code Vault 
<http://gil-contributions.googlecode.com/files/rc2.zip>`__
:Description: I/O extension for boost::gil which allows reading and
   writing of/in various image formats ( tiff, jpeg, png, etc ). This
   review will also include the Toolbox extension which adds some common
   functionality to gil, such as new color spaces, algorithms, etc.
AutoBuffer
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:Author: Thorsten Ottosen
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: `Here <http://www.cs.aau.dk/~nesotto/boost/auto_buffer.zip>`__
:Description:
   Boost.AutoBuffer provides a container for efficient dynamic, local 
buffers.
   Furthermore, the container may be used as an alternative to std::vector,
   offering greater flexibility and sometimes better performance.
String Convert
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:Author: Vladimir Batov
:Review Manager: Needed
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:Description:
   The library takes the approach of boost::lexical_cast in the area of
   string-to-type and type-to-string conversions, builds on the past
   boost::lexical_cast experience and advances that conversion
   functionality further to additionally provide:
   * throwing and non-throwing conversion-failure behavior;
   * support for the default value to be returned when conversion fails;
   * two types of the conversion-failure check -- basic and better/safe;
   * formatting support based on the standard I/O Streams and the standard
   (or user-defined) I/O Stream-based manipulators
   (like std::hex, std::scientific, etc.);
   * locale support;
   * support for boost::range-compliant char and wchar_t-based string 
containers;
   * no DefaultConstructibility requirement for the Target type;
   * consistent framework to uniformly incorporate any type-to-type 
conversions.
   It is an essential tool with applications making extensive use of
   configuration files or having to process/prepare considerable amounts
   of data in, say, XML, etc.
Move
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:Author: Ion Gaztanaga
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/move/ and online 
documentation at 
http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/move/libs/move/doc/html/index.html
:Description:
In C++0x, move semantics are implemented with the introduction of rvalue 
references. They allow us to implement move() without verbosity or 
runtime overhead. Boost.Move is a library that offers tools to implement 
those move semantics not only in compilers with rvalue  references but 
also in compilers conforming to C++03.
Containers
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:Author: Ion Gaztanaga
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: 
http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=boost.move.container.zip&directory=Containers& 
and online documentation at
http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/move/libs/container/doc/html/index.html 
:Description:
Boost.Container library implements several well-known containers, 
including STL containers. The aim of the library is to offers advanced 
features not present in standard containers or to offer the latest 
standard draft features for compilers that comply with C++03.
Interval Containers Library
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:Author: Joachim Faulhaber
:Review Manager: Needed
:Description:
  The Interval Template Library (Itl) provides intervals
  and two kinds of interval containers: Interval_sets and
  interval_maps. Interval_sets and maps can be used just
  as sets or maps of elements. Yet they are much more
  space and time efficient when the elements occur in
  contiguous chunks: intervals. This is obviously the case
  in many problem domains, particularly in fields that deal
  with problems related to date and time.
  Interval containers allow for intersection with interval_sets
  to work with segmentation. For instance you might want
  to intersect an interval container with a grid of months
  and then iterate over those months.
  Finally interval_maps provide aggregation on
  associated values, if added intervals overlap with
  intervals that are stored in the interval_map. This
  feature is called aggregate on overlap. It is shown by
  example:
  ::
    typedef set<string> guests;
    interval_map<time, guests> party;
    guests mary; mary.insert("Mary");
    guests harry; harry.insert("Harry");
    party += make_pair(interval<time>::rightopen(20:00, 22:00),mary);
    party += make_pair(interval<time>::rightopen_(21:00, 23:00),harry);
    // party now contains
    [20:00, 21:00)->{"Mary"}
    [21:00, 22:00)->{"Harry","Mary"} //guest sets aggregated on overlap
    [22:00, 23:00)->{"Harry"}
  As can be seen from the example an interval_map has both
  a decompositional behavior (on the time dimension) as well as
  a accumulative one (on the associated values).
Type Traits Extensions
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:Author: Frédéric Bron
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/sandbox/type_traits
:Description:
The purpose of the addition is to add type traits to detect if types T and U
are comparable in the sens of <, <=, >, >=, == or != operators, i.e. if
t<u has a sens when t is of type T and u of type U (same for <=, >, >=, ==,
!=).
The following traits are added:
is_equal_to_comparable<T,U>
is_greater_comparable<T,U>
is_greater_equal_comparable<T,U>
is_less_comparable<T,U>
is_less_equal_comparable<T,U>
is_not_equal_to_comparable<T,U>
The names are based on the corresponding names of the standard
template library (<functional> header, section 20.3.3 of the
standard).
The code has the following properties:
* returns true if t<u is meaningful and returns a value convertible to bool
* returns false if t<u is meaningless.
* fails with compile time error if t<u is meaningful and returns void
(a possibility to avoid compile time error would be to return true
with an operator, trick but this has little sens as returning false
would be better)
InterThreads
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:Author: Vicente J. Botet Escriba
:Review Manager: Needed
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:Description:
  Boost.InterThreads extends Boost.Threads adding some features:
     * thread decorator: thread_decorator allows to define
       setup/cleanup functions which will be called only once by
       thread: setup before the thread function and cleanup at thread
       exit.
     * thread specific shared pointer: this is an extension of the
       thread_specific_ptr providing access to this thread specific
       context from other threads. As it is shared the stored pointer
       is a shared_ptr instead of a raw one.
     * thread keep alive mechanism: this mechanism allows to detect
       threads that do not prove that they are alive by calling to the
       keep_alive_point regularly. When a thread is declared dead a
       user provided function is called, which by default will abort
       the program.
     * thread tuple: defines a thread groupe where the number of
       threads is know statically and the threads are created at
       construction time.
     * set_once: a synchonizer that allows to set a variable only once,
       notifying to the variable value to whatever is waiting for that.
     * thread_tuple_once: an extension of the boost::thread_tuple which
       allows to join the thread finishing the first, using for that
       the set_once synchronizer.
     * thread_group_once: an extension of the boost::thread_group which
       allows to join the thread finishing the first, using for that
       the set_once synchronizer.
  (thread_decorator and thread_specific_shared_ptr) are based on the
  original implementation of threadalert written by Roland Schwarz.
  Boost.InterThreads extends Boost.Threads adding thread setup/cleanup
  decorator, thread specific shared pointer, thread keep alive
  mechanism and thread tuples.
Bitfield
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:Author: Vicente J. Botet Escriba
:Review Manager: Needed
:Download: https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/bitfield with 
documentation available at 
https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/bitfield/libs/bitfield/doc/index.html
:Description:
Portable bitfields traits. Boost.Bitfield consists of:
* a generic bitfield traits class providing generic getter and setter 
methods.
* a BOOST_BITFIELD_DCL macro making easier the definition of the 
bitfield traits and the bitfield getter and setter functions.
Lockfree
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:Author: Tim Blechmann
:Review Manager: Needed
:Description:
boost.lockfree provides implementations of lock-free data structures.
lock-free data structures can be accessed by multiple threads without
the necessity of blocking synchronization primitives such as guards.
lock-free data structures can be used in real-time systems, where
blocking algorithms may lead to high worst-case execution times, to
avoid priority inversion, or to increase the scalability for
multi-processor machines.
boost.lockfree provides:
* boost::lockfree::fifo, a lock-free fifo queue
* boost::lockfree::stack, a lock-free stack
the code is available from the boost vault:
http://www.boostpro.com/vault/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=boost_lockfree-241109.zip&directory=Concurrent%20Programming&
and from my personal git repository:
git://tim.klingt.org/boost_lockfree.git
http://tim.klingt.org/git?p=boost_lockfree.git
the documentation is available at:
http://tim.klingt.org/boost_lockfree/
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