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Boost 1.56.0 Library Documentation - Domain Specific

Domain Specific

Chrono

Useful time utilities. C++11.

Author(s)
Howard Hinnant, Beman Dawes and Vicente J. Botet Escriba
First Release
1.47.0
Categories
Domain Specific, System
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
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
Categories
Domain Specific, System
Units

Zero-overhead dimensional analysis and unit/quantity manipulation and conversion.

Author(s)
Matthias Schabel and Steven Watanabe
First Release
1.36.0
Categories
Domain Specific
Uuid

A universally unique identifier.

Author(s)
Andy Tompkins
First Release
1.42.0
Categories
Data structures, Domain Specific