./wip/folly, Open-source C++ library developed and used at Facebook

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 2024.08.19.00, Package name: folly-2024.08.19.00, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

iFolly (acronymed loosely after Facebook Open Source Library) is
a library of C++14 components designed with practicality and
efficiency in mind. Folly contains a variety of core library
components used extensively at Facebook. In particular, it's often
a dependency of Facebook's other open source C++ efforts and place
where those projects can share code.

It complements (as opposed to competing against) offerings such as
Boost and of course std. In fact, we embark on defining our own
component only when something we need is either not available, or
does not meet the needed performance profile. We endeavor to remove
things from folly if or when std or Boost obsoletes them.

Performance concerns permeate much of Folly, sometimes leading to
designs that are more idiosyncratic than they would otherwise be
(see e.g. PackedSyncPtr.h, SmallLocks.h). Good performance at large
scale is a unifying theme in all of Folly.

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