On Apr 13, 2013, at 10:02 PM, Allan Odgaard <odga...@simplit.com> wrote:

>> C++ static initializers are evil, though, at least the ones that run code. 
>> They run super early, in an undefined order, with no way to specify 
>> dependencies between them; so if you’re not careful they can slow down 
>> launch and/or cause weird nondeterministic bugs.
> 
> That would be when declared in the file scope. You can give them function 
> scope which means they are not initialized before entering the function

Correct — and actually the way I fixed most of those static variable 
initializers [in Chrome btw] was to move them inside the functions that used 
them (or wrap them in functions.)

—Jens
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