From: terekhov@web.de   
      
   Seungbeom Kim wrote:   
   [...]   
   > Can you give some real-world examples of the need for the   
   > initialization to be lazy, i.e. not earlier than the first use? My   
   > understanding is that when you think of singletons as global   
   > objects, you shouldn't mind their initialization being earlier than   
   > their first use.   
      
   To begin with, search the usage of pthread_once() on the net for   
   examples.   
      
   regards,   
   alexander.   
      
      
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