Most frequently used boost libraries?

[rlewkov]

Am taking a survey. What are the 3-4 boost libraries that you use the most?

Am asking as I've only used boost infrequently, am planning on learning more, and want to prioritize my effort.

 

[Roger Trimble]

I use the smart pointers and date/time libraries the most. Shared and scoped pointers, and their array counterparts are useful in memory management. They reduce the need for 'new' and 'delete' almost entirely. Date/time is also useful, but I think you have to have the library built in order to use it.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

There is no single answer. boost has many useful libraries. It depends on your profile and the problem you want to solve.

I have some posts here


http://www.datasimfinancial.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=111

http://www.datasimfinancial.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=273

that migt be helpful.

 

[John Jurcevic]

You should definitely learn how to use Boost.Python first and follow that by the libraries: Regex, Graph, and Bind.

 

[zhouxing]

I think smart pointers may be the widest used. Others like triplet, regexp, Spirit etc are also quite often seen.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

If you are developing flexible algos, then

Function
Signals and Slots
Bind
(Lambda)


and useful datastructures are

any
Variant
Tuple
uBLAS

For maths, check out

Statistics distributions
Special functions


IMO there's nothing that can touch boost at the moment.


Others like triplet, regexp, Spirit etc are also quite often seen.

What's triplet?. The learning curve wih Spirit is steep!