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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: sht static guard locks
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Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:

>> If you do not care about performance (as many C++ people do) it doesn't
>> matter. If you are very interested in performance this is a serious problem.
>
> If you take the trouble to look (but that would spoil a good rant,
> wouldn't it?) you would see that static variable initialisation that
> is legal in C (from a constant) is treated the same in C++ as C.  The
> compiler inserts guards where a race condition could occur.

Tell your facts to shut up.  Jacob has no interest in them.