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Boost 1.73.0 Library Documentation - Concurrent Programming

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Concurrent Programming

Thread

Portable C++ multi-threading. C++03, C++11, C++14, C++17.

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

(C++11) Context switching library.

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

Lockfree data structures.

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

Coroutine library.

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

C++11-style atomic<>.

Author(s)
Helge Bahmann, Tim Blechmann and Andrey Semashev
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
Compute

Parallel/GPU-computing library

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

(C++11) Userland threads library.

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

Portable HTTP, WebSocket, and network operations using only C++11 and Boost.Asio

Author(s)
Vinnie Falco
First Release
1.66.0
Categories
Concurrent Programming, Input/Output