thread-safe local static variable initialization

[Jim Dehnert]

> From sassan at cup.hp.com  Tue Jun  8 08:54:33 1999
> 
> Jim: One issue that library providers face, though, is whether they
> need to provide a thread-safe in addition to the higher performance
> and possibly thread-unsafe version of their library.

Of course.  In that regard, of course, they are just like any user
trying to write thread-safe code.

> I.e. it may
> still be helpful to provide a consistent model for library vendors,
> possibly at some initialization-time performance overhead, if it
> resolves the dilemma (without taxing the application performance
> beyond initialization.)

It might.  One of my points was that this is a big if.  There's much
more involved in the problem than dynamic initialization of local
statics.  But rather than argue about the concept, let's wait for a
proposal and discuss that.

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