Thread Locals (was Re: State of Loom)

[Andrew Haley]

On 27/05/2020 20:38, forax at univ-mlv.fr wrote:

> it's only safe to use a thread local bound to a carrier thread if
> you are using it as a cache, like StringCoding does.

And the bound object is either immutable or non-preemptable. This all
sounds much to hairy to me.

Are we reaching for "Let's bind a StringCoding to a carrier thread" as
a proxy for "Let's make sure we don't create too many StringCodings" ?

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