Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Date : Wed Feb 16 2005 04:03 pm

"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> writes:

>     Umm, it's totally obvious. For your method, every reference to 
> thread-specific data (assuming you don't cache the address) requires 
> figuring out which thread you are to calculate the address.

Calculating the address can be done by reading from a page which
appears to have different contents among threads. So it's not more
costly than one extra dereference.

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