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Boost 1.65.1 Library Documentation - Concurrent Programming

Concurrent Programming

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
Categories
Concurrent Programming, Input/Output
Atomic

C++11-style atomic<>.

Author(s)
Helge Bahmann, Tim Blechmann and Andrey Semashev
First Release
1.53.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Compute

Parallel/GPU-computing library

Author(s)
Kyle Lutz
First Release
1.61.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Context

(C++11) Context switching library.

Author(s)
Oliver Kowalke
First Release
1.51.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming, System
Coroutine (deprecated)

Coroutine library.

Author(s)
Oliver Kowalke
First Release
1.53.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Coroutine2

(C++11) Coroutine library.

Author(s)
Oliver Kowalke
First Release
1.59.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Fiber

(C++11) Userland threads library.

Author(s)
Oliver Kowalke
First Release
1.62.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming, System
Interprocess

Shared memory, memory mapped files, process-shared mutexes, condition variables, containers and allocators.

Author(s)
Ion Gaztañaga
First Release
1.35.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Lockfree

Lockfree data structures.

Author(s)
Tim Blechmann
First Release
1.53.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming
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
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Thread

Portable C++ multi-threading. C++11, C++14.

Author(s)
Anthony Williams and Vicente J. Botet Escriba
First Release
1.25.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming, System