On Dec 9, 2011, at 1:11 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote:

> On 09.12.2011, at 07:55, Ken Thomases wrote:
>> On Dec 8, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Abdul Sowayan wrote:
>>> The above will still work in an ARC environment. It is rather inefficient, 
>>> however. For details please check the "Double Check Locking Optimization 
>>> pattern":
>>> http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/PDF/DC-Locking.pdf
>> 
>> Double-checked locking is broken.  It is an anti-pattern in many languages, 
>> including the C family under most common implementations.  Don't use it.  
>> Google it if you want to confirm.  One reference: 
>> <http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/DoubleCheckedLocking.html>.
> 
> 
> Is this an issue that just exists when you want to write against ANSI C, or 
> is this an actual, practical concern when writing on the Mac, for MacOS or 
> iOS? Does anyone have information on the actual memory model implemented in 
> Mac C, ObjC and C++ compilers that reinforce this?
> 
> Just trying to figure out whether I have to change a lot of existing Mac and 
> iOS code now, or whether it suffices to be aware of the problem and not write 
> it in new code and stuff that gets ported.

Why not just use dispatch_once?

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