• Endian: Types and
conversion functions for correct byte ordering and more
regardless of processor endianness.
• Sort: includes
spreadsort, a general-case hybrid radix sort that is faster
than O(n*log(n))
•
WinAPI:
For details
of what's in the release, see http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_58_0.html.
Note that the links to
files on this web page are for the final release - use the
SourceForge link above to get the beta files.
Please download the beta,
give it a try, and report any problems you encounter.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
There is a bug with the build scripts; you have to specify
the address-mode and architecture to b2.
I used:
./b2 address-model=64 architecture=x86
(this will be
fixed before the final release)
Thanks,
-- The Boost Release Team