Why are globals set to tls by default? and why is fast code ugly by default?
Nick Treleaven
nick at geany.org
Sun Mar 26 18:29:17 UTC 2023
On Sunday, 26 March 2023 at 18:07:03 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
> What i find even more weird is writing fast code is ugly in D
>
> Look at this ugly code
>
> ```D
> __gshared int fast_code_ugly;
> ```
Because it should be rare that __gshared is used. And if you need
it, you won't be worried about how the storage class looks
because you'll be concentrating on if your design is thread-safe.
> It should be the opposite
Then by default, @safe code can not access global variables and
there can easily be accidental races between threads.
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