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        <span class="bold"><strong>Boost.Container</strong></span> is a product of a long development
        effort that started <a href="http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2004/11/76263.php" target="_top">in
        2004 with the experimental Shmem library</a>, which pioneered the use
        of standard containers i