Subj : Re: Can C++ local static objects be made thread safe?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Gianni Mariani
Date : Wed Jan 19 2005 10:50 pm

roland wrote:
> 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.

This won't work too well with non-trivial constructors.

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