Use Thread-local Storage to Reduce Synchronization

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2 Jun 2010CPOL5 min read

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Synchronization is often an expensive operation that can limit the performance of a multithreaded program. Using thread-local data structures instead of data structures shared by the threads can reduce synchronization in certain cases, allowing a program to run faster.

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