From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 06:21:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: Allow static initializer for pthreads on Windows
Message-ID: <xmqqh97y8g74.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <67e38b43-0264-12f2-cca8-4b718ed7dc9d@kdbg.org>

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

>> As many codepaths may not even need access to the attributes, I
>> doubt that would be a very productive direction to go.
>
> So, what is productive then? Pessimizing one (not exactly minor) platform?

Lazy on-demand initialization as needed, perhaps?  The on-demand
initialization mechanism may become no-op on some platforms that can
do static initialization.