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Boost 1.56.0 Library Documentation - Data structures

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Safe, generic container for single values of different value types.

Author(s)
Kevlin Henney
First Release
1.23.0
Categories
Data structures
Bimap

Bidirectional maps library for C++. With Boost.Bimap you can create associative containers in which both types can be used as key.

Author(s)
Matias Capeletto
First Release
1.35.0
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Compressed Pair

Empty member optimization.

Author(s)
John Maddock, Howard Hinnant, et al
First Release
1.13.0
Categories
Data structures, Patterns and Idioms
Container

Standard library containers and extensions.

Author(s)
Ion Gaztañaga
First Release
1.48.0
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Fusion

Library for working with tuples, including various containers, algorithms, etc.

Author(s)
Joel de Guzman, Dan Marsden and Tobias Schwinger
First Release
1.35.0
Categories
Data structures, Template Metaprogramming
Geometry

The Boost.Geometry library provides geometric algorithms, primitives and spatial index.

Author(s)
Barend Gehrels, Bruno Lalande, Mateusz Loskot, Adam Wulkiewicz and Menelaos Karavelas
First Release
1.47.0
Categories
Algorithms, Data structures, Math and numerics
Heap

Priority queue data structures.

Author(s)
Tim Blechmann
First Release
1.49.0
Categories
Data structures
ICL

Interval Container Library, interval sets and maps and aggregation of associated values

Author(s)
Joachim Faulhaber
First Release
1.46.0
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Multi-Index

The Boost Multi-index Containers Library provides a class template named multi_index_container which enables the construction of containers maintaining one or more indices with different sorting and access semantics.

Author(s)
Joaquín M López Muñoz
First Release
1.32.0
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Pointer Container

Containers for storing heap-allocated polymorphic objects to ease OO-programming.

Author(s)
Thorsten Ottosen
First Release
1.33.0
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Polygon

Voronoi diagram construction and booleans/clipping, resizing/offsetting and more for planar polygons with integral coordinates.

Author(s)
Lucanus Simonson and Andrii Sydorchuk
First Release
1.44.0
Categories
Algorithms, Data structures, Math and numerics
Property Tree

A tree data structure especially suited to storing configuration data.

Author(s)
Marcin Kalicinski and Sebastian Redl
First Release
1.41.0
Categories
Containers, Data structures
Tuple

Ease definition of functions returning multiple values, and more.

Author(s)
Jaakko Järvi
First Release
1.24.0
Categories
Data structures
Type Erasure

Runtime polymorphism based on concepts.

Author(s)
Steven Watanabe
First Release
1.54.0
Categories
Data structures
Uuid

A universally unique identifier.

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

Safe, generic, stack-based discriminated union container.

Author(s)
Eric Friedman and Itay Maman
First Release
1.31.0
Categories
Containers, Data structures