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Revision: 738
          http://assorted.svn.sourceforge.net/assorted/?rev=738&view=rev
Author:   yangzhang
Date:     2008-05-08 12:20:48 -0700 (Thu, 08 May 2008)

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added outline of library contents; added more related work

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 language.  The library is nascent, so it doesn't have enough to warrant a
 release. This is a library of header files, in the same spirit as [boost].
 
+Here are some of the features present in the library:
+
+- check macros (assertions that aren't meant to be removed in releases)
+- RAII utilities, such as for closing file descriptors
+- low-level system information from cpuid
+- file I/O utilities, such as reading complete files
+- hash functions
+- pseudo-random number generators
+- error handling, such as `die()`
+- function delegates (for use with C functions that take `(void*)(void*)`)
+- region-based allocation
+- bundles of header includes
+- socket utilities
+- C functions for string manipulation
+- bit manipulation
+- C++ support for pthreads, but allowing the user to access the underlying
+  `pthread_t` (a major annoyance of using boost threads was its complete
+  encapsulation)
+- portable re-implementations of pthread primitives such as barriers
+- C++ support for [State Threads]
+- utilities for [tamer]
+
+[State Threads]: http://state-threads.sourceforge.net/
+
 Related Work
 ------------
 
 Code found here generally tries to complement code in the following other handy
 libraries:
 
-- [boost]
-- [libstdc++]
-- [nmstl]
+- [boost]: mountains of goodness
+- [libstdc++]: GNU's popular STL implementation
+- [stlport]: portable SGI-derived STL implementation that has the extensions
+  like `hash_map`
+- [State Threads]: lightweight cooperative threads library that focuses on
+  performance and provides network IO.
 
 [boost]: http://boost.org/
 [libstdc++]: http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/
-[nmstl]: http://nmstl.sourceforge.net/
+[stlport]: http://www.stlport.org/
+[State Threads]: http://state-threads.sf.net/
+[Pth]: http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/
+[libtask]: http://swtch.com/libtask/
+[tamer]: http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/tamer/
 
 Some other general-purpose libraries which I haven't looked at in-depth:
 


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