Because kids do better when their parents take care of them, and "programs" can't replace this. Companies have to help out because they're part of society. In exchange they get to do things like limit their liability…
Lazy initialization is one example: void foo() { // initialized once when foo is first called static auto lazy_data = ...; // use lazy_data... } As of c++11, the compiler is required to make this threadsafe (initializer…
Because kids do better when their parents take care of them, and "programs" can't replace this. Companies have to help out because they're part of society. In exchange they get to do things like limit their liability…
Lazy initialization is one example: void foo() { // initialized once when foo is first called static auto lazy_data = ...; // use lazy_data... } As of c++11, the compiler is required to make this threadsafe (initializer…