"Stewart, Robert" <Robert.Stewart@sig.com> wrote in message
Boost isn't so shortsighted as to think non-Boost is bad. Licensing is often a good reason to put something in Boost, however. The real driver is to advance the state of the art in C++ libraries, always with an eye to inclusion in the Standard.
There is a universe of excellent libraries. However, I did not expect to see them resommended on this newsgroup. IMHO the standard libraries are rather perverse when used for programs to be run on multi-processor machines - which many people own today. Naive use of the STL containers, in particular, causes a multithreaded program to run slower on multi-processor machines. I would like to see BOOST begin to address this issue, hence my post. James