<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><html><head><title>Acknowledgements</title><meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1"><meta name="vs_targetSchema" content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5"></head><body><h1>Acknowledgements</h1><ol><li>This library was written at the <a href = "http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/dept/storage/network.html">Network Storage Technologies</a> Group of<a href = "http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/">IBM's Haifa Research Labs</a>.</li><li>The library is based heavily on policy-based design and uses many usefultechniques from [<a href="references.html#knuth98sorting">alexandrescu01modern</a>].</li><li> Two ideas are borrowed from the SGI-STL implementation [<a href = "references.html#sgi_stl">sgi_stl</a>]:<ol><li>The prime-based resize policies use a list of primes taken from the SGI-STL implementation.</li><li> The red-black trees contain both a root node and a headernode (containing metadata), connected in a waythat forward and reverse iteration can be performed efficiently.</li></ol></li><li> Some test utilities borrow ideas from [<a href = "references.html#boost_timer">boost_timer</a>].</li><li> We would like to thank Scott Meyers for useful comments (without attributing to himany flaws in the design or implementation of the library).</li><li> Much of the documentation is<a href = "http://www.python.org/"><img src="PythonPoweredSmall.gif" align=top width=55height=22 alt="[Python Powered]" border=0></a>.</li></ol></body></html>