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My question is simple. Is a static local variable's initialization thread safe? <br><br>Acording to Stroustrup: <blockquote class="ip-ubbcode-quote"> <font size="-1 ...

This month’s Java 101 concludes the thread series by focusing on thread groups, volatility, thread-local variables, timers, and the ThreadDeath class. Java requires every thread and every thread group ...

Data variables in C# and Visual Basic normally define themselves by the amount and type of data they hold. The string type, with its ability to store 2 billion characters, is often seen gloating about ...

There are many topics in the C language that often confuse developers but the use of the static keyword seems to be one of the more common. One of the points of confusion is how static affects ...