Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : roland
Date : Wed Jan 19 2005 06:10 pm

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> "You should not pay for what you don't use" motto, you know.

A very simple (yet standard conforming) solution would be to simply
do away with the initialization on first entry to the function.
The MT version simply could initialize local statics the same way it
does with globals, at the process startup, before main.

And this won't cost much.

Roland

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