On Friday, 30 October 2015 at 21:29:22 UTC, BBasile wrote:
__gshared is mostly usefull on fields (eg public uint a) because it prevents a data to be put on the TLS, which in certain case reduces the perfs up to 30%. The byte code using a global variable that's not __gshared can be incredibly slower !
I have gotten used to using __gshared on fields so much that I just naturally assumed that shared static this() { } would be equivalent to __gshared static this() { } :P. I find they can be very useful for data that initialized in static constructors and then never change again (I will have to fix my shared constructors now :S guess i have been lucky not running into race problems before).
