My organization is investigating contracting for enhancements to the boost::btree library developed by Beman Dawes with all enhancements to remain under the boost license and author(s) retaining all copyright. No travel is expected to be required as part of this project. We are considering the following enhancements: 1. Develop detailed developer and tutorial documentation in customary boost formats 2. Enhancing the interface to provide more explicit preload and caching control to include the amount of RAM to reserve, perhaps with the ability to specify posix alignment to maximize benefit of linux anonymous huge page support. 3. Make the library C++ 11 ready 4. Finalize data layout and support for variable length payloads 5. Provide convenient interface for storing std::string (or the contents thereof) in payloads 6. Prepare the library for submission for formal review Any comments and suggestions on this are greatly appreciated. Of particular interest are discussions of technical approaches and estimates of hours required. Please do not send formal proposals. In addition to replying on this list (preferred) I can be reached at the telephone numbers and email below. Comments sent by 21 December will be most valuable. Discussion after that is still very welcome! Please don’t include any proprietary data. Also note that I am not authorized to commit the government in any way--this is simply market research. Thanks! Joel Dr. JOEL D. YOUNG Assistant Professor Computer Science Department Naval Postgraduate School Glasgow East Rm 338 jdyoung@nps.edu (831) 656-3518