Re: Glib::Threads:Private

[John Emmas <john creativepost co uk>]

On 20/02/2019 15:26, Paul Davis wrote:

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 1:17 AM John Emmas <john creativepost co uk> wrote:

I realise it's a deprecated interface but can anyone explain what
Glib::Threads:Private<SomeObject> does?

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It means that each thread that accesses the variable sees a distinct or "thread-local" version of it.

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Thanks Paul - so would a typical use case be for static members of a class? In normal circumstances, a static class member has the same value for all instances of the class. But maybe (in this case) 2 objects running in different threads could each have different values?

John