Openapoc: Remove Boost

[JonnyH]

Nobody likes it, it's not "needed" in most cases, is slow to build and adds lots of dependencies

[makus82]

what is boost?)

[JonnyH]

"boost" is a large set of c++ libraries (https://www.boost.org/) - we use a few of them for various things, but I think it may be simpler in these cases to add simple single-function libs instead of the (rather massive) boost framework.

It's often a "staging" point for new libraries proposed to be in the next c++ standard, but also causes it to come with a lot of backwards compatibility cruft we don't need and bloats build and code size.

[Paddywhacker]

Anything to streamline the code is good. I am continually amazed that OA does not run much faster on a modern gaming rig than the original did back in the days of DOS.

[JonnyH]

There's not really anything using boost in performance critical sections, so will likely not change things there. Assuming this is a good idea and will get done.

To be fair, we do a lot more - there were lots of tricks and heuristics that we don't implement, instead just brute-forcing everything (which also avoids some "weird" behavior at times).

And people seem to forget the OG ran at ~18 fps :)