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Sat, 2008-07-12 13:02 — jason

In this particular case... it's irrelevant

There is no such thing (currently) as thread-specific storage in C++. If you were to make m_fibonacci_values static it would result in m_fibonacci_values being shared between all object instances of the class "threaded_class." With the most basic usage case there will only be one "threaded_class" in existence in our application.

If you did make it static *and* you had more than one "threaded_class" it would almost certainly cause a crash as the various objects would step on each other with their shared data...

The confusion you are having may be coming from the function "start_thread" which is static. However, that static method class the non-static do_work and allows for the threads to share m_fibonacci_values.

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