http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_61_0/
Boost 1.61.0 Library Documentation
- Accumulators
- Framework for incremental calculation, and collection of statistical accumulators.
- Author(s): Eric Niebler
- First Release: 1.36.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Algorithm
- A collection of useful generic algorithms.
- Author(s): Marshall Clow
- First Release: 1.50.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Algorithms
- Align
- Memory alignment functions, allocators, and traits.
- Author(s): Glen Fernandes
- First Release: 1.56.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Memory
- Any
- Safe, generic container for single values of different value types.
- Author(s): Kevlin Henney
- First Release: 1.23.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Data structures
- Array
- STL compliant container wrapper for arrays of constant size.
- Author(s): Nicolai Josuttis
- First Release: 1.17.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: Containers
- Asio
- Portable networking and other low-level I/O, including sockets, timers, hostname resolution, socket iostreams, serial ports, file descriptors and Windows HANDLEs.
- Author(s): Chris Kohlhoff
- First Release: 1.35.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Concurrent Programming, Input/Output
- Assert
- Customizable assert macros.
- Author(s): Peter Dimov
- First Release: 1.27.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Correctness and testing
- Assign
- Filling containers with constant or generated data has never been easier.
- Author(s): Thorsten Ottosen
- First Release: 1.32.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Input/Output
- Atomic
- C++11-style atomic<>.
- Author(s): Helge Bahmann, Tim Blechmann and Andrey Semashev
- First Release: 1.53.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Concurrent Programming
- Bimap
- Bidirectional maps library for C++. With Boost.Bimap you can create associative containers in which both types can be used as key.
- Author(s): Matias Capeletto
- First Release: 1.35.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Containers, Data structures
- Bind
- boost::bind is a generalization of the standard functions std::bind1st and std::bind2nd. It supports arbitrary function objects, functions, function pointers, and member function pointers, and is able to bind any argument to a specific value or route input arguments into arbitrary positions.
- Author(s): Peter Dimov
- First Release: 1.25.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming
- Call Traits
- Defines types for passing parameters.
- Author(s): John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al
- First Release: 1.13.0
- Standard
- Categories: Generic Programming
- Chrono
- Useful time utilities. C++11.
- Author(s): Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes and Vicente J. Botet Escriba
- First Release: 1.47.0
- Standard
- Proposed
- Categories: Domain Specific, System
- Circular Buffer
- A STL compliant container also known as ring or cyclic buffer.
- Author(s): Jan Gaspar
- First Release: 1.35.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Containers
- Compatibility
- Help for non-conforming standard libraries.
- Author(s): Ralf Grosse-Kunstleve and Jens Maurer
- First Release: 1.21.2
- Standard:
- Categories: Broken compiler workarounds
- Compressed Pair
- Empty member optimization.
- Author(s): John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al
- First Release: 1.13.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Data structures, Patterns and Idioms
- Compute
- Parallel/GPU-computing library
- Author(s): Kyle Lutz
- First Release: 1.61.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Concurrent Programming
- Concept Check
- Tools for generic programming.
- Author(s): Jeremy Siek
- First Release: 1.19.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Correctness and testing, Generic Programming
- Config
- Helps Boost library developers adapt to compiler idiosyncrasies; not intended for library users.
- Author(s)
- First Release: 1.9.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Broken compiler workarounds
- Container
- Standard library containers and extensions.
- Author(s): Ion Gaztañaga
- First Release: 1.48.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Containers, Data structures
- Context
- Context switching library.
- Author(s): Oliver Kowalke
- First Release: 1.51.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Concurrent Programming, System
- Conversion
- Polymorphic casts.
- Author(s): Dave Abrahams and Kevlin Henney
- First Release: 1.20.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Miscellaneous
- Convert
- An extendible and configurable type-conversion framework.
- Author(s): Vladimir Batov
- First Release: 1.59.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Miscellaneous, String and text processing
- Core
- A collection of simple core utilities with minimal dependencies.
- Author(s): Peter Dimov, Glen Fernandes and Andrey Semashev
- First Release: 1.56.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Miscellaneous
- Coroutine
- Coroutine library.
- Author(s): Oliver Kowalke
- First Release: 1.53.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Concurrent Programming
- Coroutine2
- (C++14) Coroutine library.
- Author(s): Oliver Kowalke
- First Release: 1.59.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Concurrent Programming
- CRC
- The Boost CRC Library provides two implementations of CRC (cyclic redundancy code) computation objects and two implementations of CRC computation functions. The implementations are template-based.
- Author(s): Daryle Walker
- First Release: 1.22.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Domain Specific
- Date Time
- A set of date-time libraries based on generic programming concepts.
- Author(s): Jeff Garland
- First Release: 1.29.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Domain Specific, System
- DLL
- Library for comfortable work with DLL and DSO.
- Author(s): Antony Polukhin and Renato Tegon Forti
- First Release: 1.61.0
- Standard:
- Categories: System
- Dynamic Bitset
- The dynamic_bitset class represents a set of bits. It provides accesses to the value of individual bits via an operator[] and provides all of the bitwise operators that one can apply to builtin integers, such as operator& and operator<<. The number of bits in the set is specified at runtime via a parameter to the constructor of the dynamic_bitset.
- Author(s): Jeremy Siek and Chuck Allison
- First Release: 1.29.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Containers
- Enable If
- Selective inclusion of function template overloads.
- Author(s): Jaakko Järvi, Jeremiah Willcock and Andrew Lumsdaine
- First Release: 1.31.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Generic Programming
- Endian
- Types and conversion functions for correct byte ordering and more regardless of processor endianness.
- Author(s): Beman Dawes
- First Release: 1.58.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Input/Output, Math and numerics, Miscellaneous
- Exception
- The Boost Exception library supports transporting of arbitrary data in exception objects, and transporting of exceptions between threads.
- Author(s): Emil Dotchevski
- First Release: 1.36.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Language Features Emulation
- Filesystem
- The Boost Filesystem Library provides portable facilities to query and manipulate paths, files, and directories.
- Author(s): Beman Dawes
- First Release: 1.30.0
- Standard:
- Categories: System
- Flyweight
- Design pattern to manage large quantities of highly redundant objects.
- Author(s): Joaquín M López Muñoz
- First Release: 1.38.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Patterns and Idioms
- Foreach
- In C++, writing a loop that iterates over a sequence is tedious. We can either use iterators, which requires a considerable amount of boiler-plate, or we can use the std::for_each() algorithm and move our loop body into a predicate, which requires no less boiler-plate and forces us to move our logic far from where it will be used. In contrast, some other languages, like Perl, provide a dedicated "foreach" construct that automates this process. BOOST_FOREACH is just such a construct for C++. It iterates over sequences for us, freeing us from having to deal directly with iterators or write predicates.
- Author(s): Eric Niebler
- First Release: 1.34.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Algorithms, Language Features Emulation
- Format
- The format library provides a class for formatting arguments according to a format-string, as does printf, but with two major differences: format sends the arguments to an internal stream, and so is entirely type-safe and naturally supports all user-defined types; the ellipsis (...) can not be used correctly in the strongly typed context of format, and thus the function call with arbitrary arguments is replaced by successive calls to an argument feeding operator%.
- Author(s): Samuel Krempp
- First Release: 1.29.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Input/Output, String and text processing
- Function
- Function object wrappers for deferred calls or callbacks.
- Author(s): Doug Gregor
- First Release: 1.23.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming, Programming Interfaces
- Function Types
- Boost.FunctionTypes provides functionality to classify, decompose and synthesize function, function pointer, function reference and pointer to member types.
- Author(s): Tobias Schwinger
- First Release: 1.35.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Generic Programming, Template Metaprogramming
- Functional
- The Boost.Function library contains a family of class templates that are function object wrappers.
- Author(s): Mark Rodgers
- First Release: 1.16.0
- Standard
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming
- Functional/Factory
- Function object templates for dynamic and static object creation
- Author(s): Tobias Schwinger
- First Release: 1.43.0
- Standard
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming
- Functional/Forward
- Adapters to allow generic function objects to accept arbitrary arguments
- Author(s): Tobias Schwinger
- First Release: 1.43.0
- Standard
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming
- Functional/Hash
- A TR1 hash function object that can be extended to hash user defined types.
- Author(s): Daniel James
- First Release: 1.33.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming
- Functional/Overloaded Function
- Overload different functions into a single function object.
- Author(s): Lorenzo Caminiti
- First Release: 1.50.0
- Standard
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming
- Fusion
- Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.
- Author(s): Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger
- First Release: 1.35.0
- Standard
- Categories: Data structures, Template Metaprogramming
- Geometry
- The Boost.Geometry library provides geometric algorithms, primitives and spatial index.
- Author(s): Barend Gehrels, Bruno Lalande, Mateusz Loskot, Adam Wulkiewicz and Menelaos Karavelas
- First Release: 1.47.0
- Standard
- Categories: Algorithms, Data structures, Math and numerics
- GIL
- Generic Image Library
- Author(s): Lubomir Bourdev and Hailin Jin
- First Release: 1.35.0
- Standard
- Categories: Algorithms, Containers, Generic Programming, Image processing, Iterators
- Graph
- The BGL graph interface and graph components are generic, in the same sense as the the Standard Template Library (STL).
- Author(s): Jeremy Siek and a University of Notre Dame team; now maintained by Andrew Sutton and Jeremiah Willcock.
- First Release: 1.18.0
- Standard
- Categories: Algorithms, Containers, Iterators
- Hana
- A modern C++ metaprogramming library. It provides high level algorithms to manipulate heterogeneous sequences, allows writing type-level computations with a natural syntax, provides tools to introspect user-defined types and much more.
- Author(s): Louis Dionne
- First Release: 1.61.0
- Standard
- Categories: Template Metaprogramming
- Heap
- Priority queue data structures.
- Author(s): Tim Blechmann
- First Release: 1.49.0
- Standard
- Categories: Data structures
- ICL
- Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation of associated values
- Author(s): Joachim Faulhaber
- First Release: 1.46.0
- Standard
- Categories: Containers, Data structures
- Identity Type
- Wrap types within round parenthesis so they can always be passed as macro parameters.
- Author(s): Lorenzo Caminiti
- First Release: 1.50.0
- Standard
- Categories: Preprocessor Metaprogramming
- In Place Factory, Typed In Place Factory
- Generic in-place construction of contained objects with a variadic argument-list.
- Author(s): Fernando Cacciola
- First Release: 1.32.0
- Standard
- Categories: Generic Programming
- Integer
- The organization of boost integer headers and classes is designed to take advantage of <stdint.h> types from the 1999 C standard without resorting to undefined behavior in terms of the 1998 C++ standard. The header <boost/cstdint.hpp> makes the standard integer types safely available in namespace boost without placing any names in namespace std.
- Author(s):
- First Release: 1.9.0
- Standard
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Interprocess
- Shared memory, memory mapped files, process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators.
- Author(s): Ion Gaztañaga
- First Release: 1.35.0
- Standard
- Categories: Concurrent Programming
- Interval
- Extends the usual arithmetic functions to mathematical intervals.
- Author(s): Guillaume Melquiond, Hervé Brönnimann and Sylvain Pion
- First Release: 1.30.0
- Standard
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Intrusive
- Intrusive containers and algorithms.
- Author(s): Ion Gaztañaga
- First Release: 1.35.0
- Standard
- Categories: Containers
- IO State Savers
- The I/O sub-library of Boost helps segregate the large number of Boost headers. This sub-library should contain various items to use with/for the standard I/O library.
- Author(s): Daryle Walker
- First Release: 1.28.0
- Standard
- Categories: Input/Output
- Iostreams
- Boost.IOStreams provides a framework for defining streams, stream buffers and i/o filters.
- Author(s): Jonathan Turkanis
- First Release: 1.33.0
- Standard
- Categories: Input/Output, String and text processing
- Iterator
- The Boost Iterator Library contains two parts. The first is a system of concepts which extend the C++ standard iterator requirements. The second is a framework of components for building iterators based on these extended concepts and includes several useful iterator adaptors.
- Author(s): Dave Abrahams, Jeremy Siek and Thomas Witt
- First Release: 1.21.0
- Standard
- Categories: Iterators
- Lambda
- Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more.
- Author(s): Jaakko Järvi and Gary Powell
- First Release: 1.28.0
- Standard
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming
- Lexical Cast
- General literal text conversions, such as an int represented a string, or vice-versa.
- Author(s): Kevlin Henney
- First Release: 1.20.0
- Standard
- Categories: Miscellaneous, String and text processing
- Local Function
- Program functions locally, within other functions, directly within the scope where they are needed.
- Author(s): Lorenzo Caminiti
- First Release: 1.50.0
- Standard
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming
- Locale
- Provide localization and Unicode handling tools for C++.
- Author(s): Artyom Beilis
- First Release: 1.48.0
- Standard
- Categories: String and text processing
- Lockfree
- Lockfree data structures.
- Author(s): Tim Blechmann
- First Release: 1.53.0
- Standard
- Categories: Concurrent Programming
- Log
- Logging library.
- Author(s): Andrey Semashev
- First Release: 1.54.0
- Standard
- Categories: Miscellaneous
- Math
- Boost.Math includes several contributions in the domain of mathematics: The Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple library provides run-time and compile-time evaluation of the greatest common divisor (GCD) or least common multiple (LCM) of two integers. The Special Functions library currently provides eight templated special functions, in namespace boost. The Complex Number Inverse Trigonometric Functions are the inverses of trigonometric functions currently present in the C++ standard. Quaternions are a relative of complex numbers often used to parameterise rotations in three dimentional space. Octonions, like quaternions, are a relative of complex numbers.
- Author(s): various
- First Release: 1.23.0
- Standard
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Math Common Factor
- Greatest common divisor and least common multiple.
- Author(s): Daryle Walker
- First Release: 1.26.0
- Standard
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Math Octonion
- Octonions.
- Author(s): Hubert Holin
- First Release: 1.23.0
- Standard
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Math Quaternion
- Quaternions.
- Author(s): Hubert Holin
- First Release: 1.23.0
- Standard
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Math/Special Functions
- A wide selection of mathematical special functions.
- Author(s): John Maddock, Paul Bristow, Hubert Holin and Xiaogang Zhang
- First Release: 1.35.0
- Standard
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Math/Statistical Distributions
- A wide selection of univariate statistical distributions and functions that operate on them.
- Author(s): John Maddock and Paul Bristow
- First Release: 1.35.0
- Standard
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Member Function
- Generalized binders for function/object/pointers and member functions.
- Author(s): Peter Dimov
- First Release: 1.25.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming
- Meta State Machine
- A very high-performance library for expressive UML2 finite state machines.
- Author(s): Christophe Henry
- First Release: 1.44.0
- Standard
- Categories: State Machines
- Metaparse
- A library for generating compile time parsers parsing embedded DSL code as part of the C++ compilation process
- Author(s): Abel Sinkovics
- First Release: 1.61.0
- Standard
- Categories: Template Metaprogramming
- Min-Max
- Standard library extensions for simultaneous min/max and min/max element computations.
- Author(s): Hervé Brönnimann
- First Release: 1.32.0
- Standard
- Categories: Algorithms
- Move
- Portable move semantics for C++03 and C++11 compilers.
- Author(s): Ion Gaztañaga
- First Release: 1.48.0
- Standard
- Categories: Language Features Emulation
- MPI
- Message Passing Interface library, for use in distributed-memory parallel application programming.
- Author(s): Douglas Gregor and Matthias Troyer
- First Release: 1.35.0
- Standard
- Categories: Concurrent Programming
- MPL
- The Boost.MPL library is a general-purpose, high-level C++ template metaprogramming framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunctions. It provides a conceptual foundation and an extensive set of powerful and coherent tools that make doing explict metaprogramming in C++ as easy and enjoyable as possible within the current language.
- Author(s): Aleksey Gurtovoy
- First Release: 1.30.0
- Standard
- Categories: Template Metaprogramming
- Multi-Array
- Boost.MultiArray provides a generic N-dimensional array concept definition and common implementations of that interface.
- Author(s): Ron Garcia
- First Release: 1.29.0
- Standard
- Categories: Containers, Math and numerics
- Multi-Index
- The Boost Multi-index Containers Library provides a class template named multi_index_container which enables the construction of containers maintaining one or more indices with different sorting and access semantics.
- Author(s): Joaquín M López Muñoz
- First Release: 1.32.0
- Standard
- Categories: Containers, Data structures
- Multiprecision
- Extended precision arithmetic types for floating point, integer andrational arithmetic.
- Author(s): John Maddock and Christopher Kormanyos
- First Release: 1.53.0
- Standard
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Numeric Conversion
- Optimized Policy-based Numeric Conversions.
- Author(s): Fernando Cacciola
- First Release: 1.32.0
- Standard
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Odeint
- Solving ordinary differential equations.
- Author(s): Karsten Ahnert and Mario Mulansky
- First Release: 1.53.0
- Standard
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Operators
- Templates ease arithmetic classes and iterators.
- Author(s): Dave Abrahams and Jeremy Siek
- First Release: 1.9.0
- Standard
- Categories: Generic Programming, Iterators, Math and numerics
- Optional
- A value-semantic, type-safe wrapper for representing 'optional' (or 'nullable') objects of a given type. An optional object may or may not contain a value of the underlying type.
- Author(s): Fernando Cacciola
- First Release: 1.30.0
- Standard
- Categories: Data structures
- Parameter
- Boost.Parameter Library - Write functions that accept arguments by name.
- Author(s): David Abrahams and Daniel Wallin
- First Release: 1.33.0
- Standard
- Categories: Language Features Emulation, Programming Interfaces
- Phoenix
- Define small unnamed function objects at the actual call site, and more.
- Author(s): Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden, Thomas Heller and John Fletcher
- First Release: 1.47.0
- Standard
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming
- Pointer Container
- Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming.
- Author(s): Thorsten Ottosen
- First Release: 1.33.0
- Standard
- Categories: Containers, Data structures
- Polygon
- Voronoi diagram construction and booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons with integral coordinates.
- Author(s): Lucanus Simonson and Andrii Sydorchuk
- First Release: 1.44.0
- Standard
- Categories: Algorithms, Data structures, Math and numerics
- Pool
- Memory pool management.
- Author(s): Steve Cleary
- First Release: 1.21.0
- Standard
- Categories: Memory
- Predef
- This library defines a set of compiler, architecture, operating system, library, and other version numbers from the information it can gather of C, C++, Objective C, and Objective C++ predefined macros or those defined in generally available headers.
- Author(s): Rene Rivera
- First Release: 1.55.0
- Standard
- Categories: Miscellaneous
- Preprocessor
- Preprocessor metaprogramming tools including repetition and recursion.
- Author(s): Vesa Karvonen and Paul Mensonides
- First Release: 1.26.0
- Standard
- Categories: Preprocessor Metaprogramming
- Program Options
- The program_options library allows program developers to obtain program options, that is (name, value) pairs from the user, via conventional methods such as command line and config file.
- Author(s): Vladimir Prus
- First Release: 1.32.0
- Standard
- Categories: Input/Output, Miscellaneous
- Property Map
- Concepts defining interfaces which map key objects to value objects.
- Author(s): Jeremy Siek
- First Release: 1.19.0
- Standard
- Categories: Containers, Generic Programming
- Property Tree
- A tree data structure especially suited to storing configuration data.
- Author(s): Marcin Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl
- First Release: 1.41.0
- Standard
- Categories: Containers, Data structures
- Proto
- Expression template library and compiler construction toolkit for domain-specific embedded languages.
- Author(s): Eric Niebler
- First Release: 1.37.0
- Standard
- Categories: Template Metaprogramming
- Python
- The Boost Python Library is a framework for interfacing Python and C++. It allows you to quickly and seamlessly expose C++ classes functions and objects to Python, and vice-versa, using no special tools -- just your C++ compiler.
- Author(s): Dave Abrahams
- First Release: 1.19.0
- Standard
- Categories: Inter-language support
- Random
- A complete system for random number generation.
- Author(s): Jens Maurer
- First Release: 1.15.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Range
- A new infrastructure for generic algorithms that builds on top of the new iterator concepts.
- Author(s): Niel Groves and Thorsten Ottosen
- First Release: 1.32.0
- Standard
- Categories: Algorithms
- Ratio
- Compile time rational arithmetic. C++11.
- Author(s): Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes and Vicente J. Botet Escriba
- First Release: 1.47.0
- Standard
- Proposed
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Rational
- A rational number class.
- Author(s): Paul Moore
- First Release: 1.11.0
- Standard
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Ref
- A utility library for passing references to generic functions.
- Author(s): Jaako Järvi, Peter Dimov, Doug Gregor and Dave Abrahams
- First Release: 1.25.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming
- Regex
- Regular expression library.
- Author(s): John Maddock
- First Release: 1.18.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: String and text processing
- Result Of
- Determines the type of a function call expression.
- Author(s):
- First Release: 1.32.0
- Standard
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming
- Scope Exit
- Execute arbitrary code at scope exit.
- Author(s): Alexander Nasonov
- First Release: 1.38.0
- Standard
- Categories: Language Features Emulation
- Serialization
- Serialization for persistence and marshalling.
- Author(s): Robert Ramey
- First Release: 1.32.0
- Standard
- Categories: Input/Output
- Signals (deprecated)
- Managed signals & slots callback implementation.
- Author(s): Doug Gregor
- First Release: 1.29.0
- Standard
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming, Patterns and Idioms
- Signals2
- Managed signals & slots callback implementation (thread-safe version 2).
- Author(s): Frank Mori Hess
- First Release: 1.39.0
- Standard
- Categories: Function objects and higher-order programming, Patterns and Idioms
- Smart Ptr
- Smart pointer class templates.
- Author(s): Greg Colvin, Beman Dawes, Peter Dimov, Darin Adler and Glen Fernandes
- First Release: 1.23.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: Memory
- Sort
- High-performance templated sort functions.
- Author(s): Steven Ross
- First Release: 1.58.0
- Standard
- Categories: Algorithms
- Spirit
- LL parser framework represents parsers directly as EBNF grammars in inlined C++.
- Author(s): Joel de Guzman, Hartmut Kaiser and Dan Nuffer
- First Release: 1.30.0
- Standard
- Categories: Parsing, String and text processing
- Statechart
- Boost.Statechart - Arbitrarily complex finite state machines can be implemented in easily readable and maintainable C++ code.
- Author(s): Andreas Huber Dönni
- First Release: 1.34.0
- Standard
- Categories: State Machines
- Static Assert
- Static assertions (compile time assertions).
- Author(s): John Maddock
- First Release: 1.19.0
- Standard
- Categories: Correctness and testing, Generic Programming, Template Metaprogramming
- String Algo
- String algorithms library.
- Author(s): Pavol Droba
- First Release: 1.32.0
- Standard
- Categories: Algorithms, String and text processing
- Swap
- Enhanced generic swap function.
- Author(s): Joseph Gauterin
- First Release: 1.38.0
- Standard
- Categories: Miscellaneous
- System
- Operating system support, including the diagnostics support that will be part of the C++0x standard library.
- Author(s): Beman Dawes
- First Release: 1.35.0
- Standard:
- Categories: System
- Test
- Support for simple program testing, full unit testing, and for program execution monitoring.
- Author(s): Gennadiy Rozental and Raffi Enficiaud
- First Release: 1.21.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Correctness and testing
- Thread
- Portable C++ multi-threading. C++11, C++14.
- Author(s): Anthony Williams and Vicente J. Botet Escriba
- First Release: 1.25.0
- Standard
- Proposed
- Categories: Concurrent Programming, System
- ThrowException
- A common infrastructure for throwing exceptions from Boost libraries.
- Author(s): Emil Dotchevski
- First Release: 1.56.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Miscellaneous
- Timer
- Event timer, progress timer, and progress display classes.
- Author(s): Beman Dawes
- First Release: 1.9.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Miscellaneous
- Tokenizer
- Break of a string or other character sequence into a series of tokens.
- Author(s): John Bandela
- First Release: 1.23.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Iterators, String and text processing
- TR1 (deprecated)
- The TR1 library provides an implementation of the C++ Technical Report on Standard Library Extensions. This library does not itself implement the TR1 components, rather it's a thin wrapper that will include your standard library's TR1 implementation (if it has one), otherwise it will include the Boost Library equivalents, and import them into namespace std::tr1.
- Author(s): John Maddock
- First Release: 1.34.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: Miscellaneous
- Tribool
- 3-state boolean type library.
- Author(s): Doug Gregor
- First Release: 1.32.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Miscellaneous
- TTI
- Type Traits Introspection library.
- Author(s): Edward Diener
- First Release: 1.54.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Generic Programming, Template Metaprogramming
- Tuple
- Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more.
- Author(s): Jaakko Järvi
- First Release: 1.24.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: Data structures
- Type Erasure
- Runtime polymorphism based on concepts.
- Author(s): Steven Watanabe
- First Release: 1.54.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Data structures
- Type Index
- Runtime/Compile time copyable type info.
- Author(s): Antony Polukhin
- First Release: 1.56.0
- Standard
- Categories: Language Features Emulation
- Type Traits
- Templates for fundamental properties of types.
- Author(s): John Maddock, Steve Cleary, et al
- First Release: 1.13.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: Generic Programming, Template Metaprogramming
- Typeof
- Typeof operator emulation.
- Author(s): Arkadiy Vertleyb and Peder Holt
- First Release: 1.34.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Language Features Emulation
- uBLAS
- uBLAS provides matrix and vector classes as well as basic linear algebra routines. Several dense, packed and sparse storage schemes are supported.
- Author(s): Joerg Walter and Mathias Koch
- First Release: 1.29.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Math and numerics
- Units
- Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity manipulation and conversion.
- Author(s): Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe
- First Release: 1.36.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Domain Specific
- Unordered
- Unordered associative containers.
- Author(s): Daniel James
- First Release: 1.36.0
- Standard
- TR1
- Categories: Containers
- Utility
- Class noncopyable plus checked_delete(), checked_array_delete(), next(), prior() function templates, plus base-from-member idiom.
- Author(s): Dave Abrahams and others
- First Release: 1.13.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Algorithms, Function objects and higher-order programming, Memory, Miscellaneous, Patterns and Idioms
- Uuid
- A universally unique identifier.
- Author(s): Andy Tompkins
- First Release: 1.42.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Data structures, Domain Specific
- Value Initialized
- Wrapper for uniform-syntax value initialization, based on the original idea of David Abrahams.
- Author(s): Fernando Cacciola
- First Release: 1.9.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Miscellaneous
- Variant
- Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container.
- Author(s): Eric Friedman and Itay Maman
- First Release: 1.31.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Containers, Data structures
- VMD
- Variadic Macro Data library.
- Author(s): Edward Diener
- First Release: 1.60.0
- Standard:
- Categories: Preprocessor Metaprogramming
- Wave
- The Boost.Wave library is a Standards conformant, and highly configurable implementation of the mandated C99/C++ preprocessor functionality packed behind an easy to use iterator interface.
- Author(s): Hartmut Kaiser
- First Release: 1.33.0
- Standard
- Categories: String and text processing
- Xpressive
- Regular expressions that can be written as strings or as expression templates, and which can refer to each other and themselves recursively with the power of context-free grammars.
- Author(s): Eric Niebler
- First Release: 1.34.0
- Standard:
- Categories: String and text processing
oost是一个准标准库，相当于STL的延续和扩充，它的设计理念和STL比较接近，都是利用泛型让复用达到最大化。不过对比STL，boost更加实用。STL集中在算法部分，而boost包含了不少工具类，可以完成比较具体的工作。
boost主要包含一下几个大类：字符串及文本处理、容器、迭代子(Iterator)、算法、函数对象和高阶编程、泛型编程、模板元编程、预处理元编程、并发编程、数学相关、纠错和测试、数据结构、输入/输出、跨语言支持、内存相关、语法分析、杂项。 有一些库是跨类别包含的，就是既属于这个类别又属于那个类别。
在文本处理部分，conversion/lexcial_cast类用于“用C++”的方法实现数字类型和字符串之间的转换。 主要是替代C标准库中的 atoi、 itoa之类的函数。当然其中一个最大的好处就是支持泛型了。
format库提供了对流的“printf-like”功能。printf里使用%d、%s等等的参数做替换的方法在很多情况下还是非常方便的，STL的iostream则缺乏这样的功能。format为stream增加了这个功能，并且功能比原始的printf更强。
regex，这个不多说了，正则表达式库。如果需要做字符串分析的人就会理解正则表达式有多么有用了。
spirit，这个是做LL分析的框架，可以根据EBNF规则对文件进行分析。（不要告诉我不知道什么是EBNF）。做编译器的可能会用到。一般人不太用的到。
tokenizer库。我以前经常在CSDN上看到有人问怎么把一个字符串按逗号分割成字符串数组。也许有些人很羡慕VB的split函数。现在，boost的tokenizer也有相同的功能了，如果我没记错的话，这个tokenizer还支持正则表达式，是不是很爽？
array: 提供了常量大小的数组的一个包装，喜欢用数组但是苦恼数组定位、确定数组大小等功能的人这下开心了。
dynamic_bitset，动态分配大小的bitset，我们知道STL里有个bitset，为位运算提供了不少方便。可惜它的大小需要在编译期指定。现在好了，运行期动态分配大小的bitset来了。
graph。提供了图的容器和相关算法。我还没有在程序中用到过图，需要用的人可以看看。
multi_array提供了对多维数组的封装，应该还是比较有用的。
并发编程里只有一个库，thread，提供了一个可移植的线程库，不过在Windows平台上我感觉用处不大。因为它是基于Posix线程的，在Windows里对Posix的支持不是很好。
接下来的 数学和数值 类里，包含了很多数值处理方面的类库，数学类我也不太熟，不过这里有几个类还是很有用的，比如rational分数类，random随机数类，等等。
static_assert，提供了编译器的assert功能。
test库，一个单元测试框架，非常不错。
concept_check提供了泛型编程时，对泛型量的一点检查，不是很完善，不过比没有好。
数据类型类any，一个安全的可以包含不同对象的类。把它作为容器的元素类型，那么这个容器就可以包含不同类型的元素。比用void *要安全。
compressed_pair，跟STL里的pair差不多。不过对空元素做了优化。
tuple，呵呵，也许是某些人梦寐以求的东西。可以让函数返回多个值。
跨语言支持：Python，呵呵，好东东啊，可以将C++的类和函数映射给python使用。以下为几个CSDN上的关于boost.python的中文资料：http://dev.csdn.net/article/19/19828.shtm，http://dev.csdn.net/article/19/19829.shtm，http://dev.csdn.net/article/19/19830.shtm，http://dev.csdn.net/article/19/19831.shtm
pool:内存池，呵呵，不用害怕频繁分配释放内存导致内存碎片，也不用自己辛辛苦苦自己实现了。
smart_ptr:智能指针，这下不用担心内存泄漏的问题了吧。不过，C++里的智能指针都还不是十全十美的，用的时候小心点了，不要做太技巧性的操作了。
date_time，这个是平台、类库无关的实现，如果程序需要跨平台，可以考虑用这个。
timer，提供了一个计时器，虽然不是Windows里那种基于消息的计时器，不过据说可以用来测量语句执行时间。
uitlity里提供了一个noncopyable类，可以实现“无法复制”的类。很多情况下，我们需要避免一个类被复制，比如代表文件句柄的类，文件句柄如果被两个实例共享，操作上会有很多问题，而且语义上也说不过去。一般的避免实例复制的方法是把拷贝构造和operator=私有化，现在只要继承一下这个类就可以了，清晰了很多。
value_initialized：数值初始化，可以保证声明的对象都被明确的初始化，不过这个真的实用吗？似乎写这个比直接写初始化还累。呵呵，仁者见仁了。
这里面除了regex、python和test需要编译出库才能用，其他的大部分都可以直接源代码应用，比较方便。其实这些库使用都不难。最主要的原因是有些库的使用需要有相关的背景知识，比如元编程、STL、泛型编程等等。
btw: 还有 Graph 库，用于图数据的处理
