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Authored by brooks on Feb 16 2026, 2:17 PM.
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Remove a bunch of complexity at the cost of 4 bytes of storage per
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Sponsored by: DARPA, AFRL

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I suspect the complexity wasn't to avoid 4 bytes per thread but more because TLS wasn't reliably working on all of our architectures when this was first written (but I could be wrong). :)

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Feb 25 2026, 1:45 AM
In D55310#1269811, @jhb wrote:

I suspect the complexity wasn't to avoid 4 bytes per thread but more because TLS wasn't reliably working on all of our architectures when this was first written (but I could be wrong). :)

I'm sure that's true, it just turns out to be a small benefit in the common case. There are a bunch more of these that I'm tempted to convert, but they involve large structs.