Boost C++ Libraries

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Future

The following features will be included in next releases. By order of priority:

#6194 Adapt to Boost.Move.
#4710 Missing async().
#6195 Provide the standard time related interface using Boost.Chrono.
- #2637 shared mutex lock
Lock guards
- #1850 request for unlock_guard (and/or unique_unlock) to compliment lock_guard/unique_lock
- #3567 Request for shared_lock_guard
#2741 Proposal to manage portable and non portable thread attributes.
- #2880 Request for Thread scheduler support for boost ..
- #3696 Boost Thread library lacks any way to set priority of threads
- #5956 Add optional stack_size argument to thread::start_thread()