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  Boost.AFIO

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  Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
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[section Acknowledgments]

We would like to thank all the people who contributed to the development of this library, many of whom
are not listed here but nevertheless are due our thanks. Our especial thanks goes (in chronological
order since 2012):

* To my former team at BlackBerry (of whom Tony van Eerd is best known to the C++ community) for
the off the cuff discussions which led to me to conceptualise AFIO as an out-of-work side project.

* To Google, for sponsoring Paul to work on AFIO as part of Google Summer of Code 2013.
Paul did the lion's share of the work of porting the preexisting pure C++ 11 code
base to Boost and to older compilers, both tasks which could never be called fun by anyone.

* To the family and friends who had to put up with us during Google Summer of Code 2013
adding 15-25 hours per week above
and beyond our normal work hours which meant time not spent with them. This part is
without doubt the hardest part of developing a new Boost library __dash__ what it requires
you to sacrifice in exchange for what little free time is already left over after
a work week.

* To my former team and division at BlackBerry who successfully obtained the first ever
corporate permission for an employee to contribute to a non-business open source project.
The many months of wrangling to achieve that win was made moot when I was downsized
towards the end of GSoC just weeks after gaining the landmark approval from Legal, nevertheless my thanks are due to BlackBerry for trying to
change itself and letting me be a part of that.

* To Christopher M. Kohlhoff for providing Boost.ASIO, which has been a high benchmark
to aspire towards.

* To Beman Dawes for providing Boost.Filesystem and the Filesystem TS, without which filesystem
paths would be far more tricky to handle well in C++.

* To Artur Laksberg for reviewing AFIO early on and making a number of valuable observations.

* To Bjorn Reese for taking the time to be an early adopter of AFIO, and making many
observations of where AFIO could be obviously improved, almost all of which were our
delight to enact.

* To Vicente J. Botet Escriba for very kindly adding a method to Boost.Thread's future's
for directly fetching their exception_ptr. This greatly improved AFIO's exception
propagation performance.

* To Megan and Clara for putting up with the nightly 12am to 4am weekday after-work slots
during 2015 which were necessary to make any progress on AFIO and its sublibraries APIBind,
Spinlock and Monad.

* To the many people on the boost-dev mailing list who contributed feedback on the design
of the sublibraries APIBind, Spinlock and Monad.

* To Ahmed Charles for volunteering to review manage AFIO after two years of waiting in the
Boost peer review queue - thank you Ahmed!

* And finally to all those who have submitted bugs and pull requests for AFIO, too many to
list here.

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