Acknowledgements
	- This library was written at the Network Storage Technologies Group of
IBM's Haifa Research Labs.
- The library is based heavily on policy-based design and uses many useful
techniques from [alexandrescu01modern].
	
-  Two ideas are borrowed from the SGI-STL implementation [sgi_stl]:
	
		- 
			The prime-based resize policies use a list of primes taken from the SGI-STL implementation.
		
-  The red-black trees contain both a root node and a header
	node (containing metadata), connected in a way
	that forward and reverse iteration can be performed efficiently.
		
 
-  Some test utilities borrow ideas from [boost_timer].
	
-  We would like to thank Scott Meyers for useful comments (without attributing to him
	any flaws in the design or implementation of the library).
	
-  Much of the documentation is
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