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Visual Studio 2015 has just been released (on the 20th July). It fixes a number of C++11 issues which we are either currently working around or have outstanding.
- "magic static" variables are not thread-safe (as they should be).
- Resolution of std::chrono::high_resolution_timer isn't actually a high resolution.
This is in addition to the many other C++11 fixes - see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2015/06/19/c-11-14-17-features-in-vs-2015-rtm.aspx for a complete list.
We should upgrade to build with VS 2015 on Windows.