So this was only a MSVC bug? Most people compile Pd with MinGW, which would expl...

legobmw99 · 2025-02-18T17:50:20 1739901020

Note that MinGW uses libwinpthread, which is known to have slow TLS behavior anyway (I've observed a 100% overhead compared to running the same program under WSL using a linux-native GCC). c.f. https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/discussions/13259

malkia · 2025-02-19T00:02:13 1739923333

I haven't looked into it, but going through the release notes for tlsGuards showed this - though not directly a bug report

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/overview/cpp-conforman...

and also the implementation in "clang" (for "clang-cl" being conformant with MSVC) - https://reviews.llvm.org/D115456#3217595

then last year clang-cl also added ways to disable this (if need to), probably this hit some internal issue and had to be resolved. Maybe "thread_local" have become more widely used (unlike OS specific "TlsAlloc")

spacechild1 · 2025-02-19T03:31:08 1739935868

Thanks! Fortunately, this issue does not affect us because our thread locals are all zero initialized integers or pointers.