Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Gianni Mariani
Date : Thu Feb 17 2005 06:29 am

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Gianni Mariani wrote:
> [...]
> 
>>What are the merits of making thread locals slow vs some arbitrary issue
>>with POSIX threads conformance ?
> 
> 
> It doesn't make it slow.

POSIX thread specific get/set stuff is very slow compared to the 
__thread keyword on GCC on x86 w Linux.  How would you propose to make 
it as fast as simply reading a memory location ?

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