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Several minor fixes to some compiling issues on Linux

Moved filter_iterator to root namespace.
Moved functions from collections to root namespace.
Reorganised predicates for network_interface to be compiled with gcc.

Possible fix for Linux.
Basic vector implementaiton.

Minor fixes for linux

Minor fix for linux defines

changed "the/text/locale_utility" to a header-only function

test_progress removed

ternary removed

removed progress_report et al

Changed definition of concurrency groups.