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Boost 1.80.0 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
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
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
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
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
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Context

(C++11) Context switching library.

Author(s)
Oliver Kowalke
First Release
1.51.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Concurrent Programming, System
Lockfree

Lockfree data structures.

Author(s)
Tim Blechmann
First Release
1.53.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
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
C++ Standard Minimum Level
03
Categories
Concurrent Programming
Coroutine2

(C++11) Coroutine library.

Author(s)
Oliver Kowalke
First Release
1.59.0
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
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
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
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
C++ Standard Minimum Level
11
Categories
Concurrent Programming, Input/Output