Wrt. threadlocal by default: shared module constructors

[Brad Roberts]

On Wed, 13 May 2009, Christopher Wright wrote:

> Brad Roberts wrote:
> > An interesting side effect of these changes is that thread startup cost is
> > going to increase.  Yet more reasons to avoid globals and global
> > initialization.
> > 
> > -- Brad
> 
> It'll further promote use of threadpools. This isn't terribly safe because the
> globals for that thread are left in some arbitrary state -- yet more reason to
> avoid globals.

Which argues for the globals to be immutable, so the cost goes away and 
we're back where we started. :)

(this is fun.. who's next?)

-- Brad