[Boost-users] stlport and visual studio 8.0

I have looked and looked and looked... sorry to ask what must be a very newbie question, but I can't find an answer anywhere in the documentation. How does one go about compiling boost with stlport? My platform is windows xp sp2, visual studio 8.0. Also, is it even worthwhile to do so? We are seeing significant slowdowns in our code due to what we think is lock contention in the standard library that ships with visual studio 8.0, so we are looking for alternatives. Does STLport run better in a multithreaded environment than the stl that comes with visual studio 8.0? Thanks.