Threads and Static Data

[Regan Heath]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Craig Black wrote:
>>
>> Suite!  I think I've seen the term "thread local", but it never 
>> occured to me what it meant.  Goes to show you how green I am when it 
>> comes to threading.  I'll check it out.  Thanks.
> 
> For what it's worth, some C/C++ compilers have "thread local" as a 
> storage class.  I've proposed adding this to D before, but there seemed 
> to be no interest at the time.

If I want thread local storage I just add the variables as static 
members of the class I've derived from Thread.

Does thread local storage give us some advantage over that?

R