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In the second quarter of 2024 implementing direct parsing for Boost.JSON has finally been completed. Direct serialisation will support all the same types as direct parsing, including recently-added std::path .

During the second quarter of 2024, my primary focus has been on the development and enhancement of the new boost.io website.

Here’s an overview of some projects I have been working on the last few months.

The beast::flat_stream was originally designed to consolidate buffer sequences into a single intermediate buffer, reducing the number of I/O operations required when writing these sequences to a stream that lacks scatter/gather support.

This last quarter I worked primarily in the http-proto library, this time extending serialization to include chunking and zlib compression routines: deflate and gzip.

This quarter started with exciting discussions about the possibility to introduce C++20 modules in Boost. I’ve dedicated a lot of time to study and reduce Boost.MySQL build times, so I promptly volunteered to conduct some investigation on the benefits and costs of modules.

Decimal (https://github.com/cppalliance/decimal) is a ground-up implementation of the IEEE 754 Decimal Floating Point types in C++14, and is co-authored by Chris Kormanyos.

As we move through 2024, I have continued to focus on enhancing the capabilities of MrDocs, addressing key features and fixes to push towards the Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

Post-Release Engagement section added to the Contributors FAQ, providing seven questions and answers that new library developers have on their likely workload following the release.

Equipped open-addressing and concurrent containers to internally calculate and provide statistical metrics affected by the quality of the hash function. ( PR#247 , to be released in Boost 1.86.0).

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In the first quarter of 2024 I mostly continued with work on direct serialization, cleanup work in Boost.JSON, and experiments with its JSON parser and serialiser. The experiments have resulted in discovery of a significant performance pessimization in the parser.