[Patch] First bits of the algo merge

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"AlisdairM" <alisdair.meredith@uk.renaultf1.com> writes:

| Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
|  
| > Deprecation (which is different from removal) is almost never an
| > effective solution for C or C++, as far as I can see.  Since it is
| > there, we would have to support it.  It is an added complexity for no
| > net benefit.
| 
| From a standards perspective, there is not a lot to support with
| vector< bool > anyway as it has no defined behaviour, only defined
| signatures.

Surprisingly, the semantics of vector<bool> is not just that of signatures.

-- Gaby