How is ThreadLocal implemented? Is it implemented in Java (using some concurrent map from ThreadID to object), or does it use some JVM hook to do it more efficiently?

I'm using Parallel Extensions fairly heavily and I've just now encountered a case where using thread local storage might be sensible to allow re-use of objects by worker threads. As such I was look...

[ThreadStatic] private static Foo _foo; public static Foo CurrentFoo { get { if (_foo == null) { _foo = new Foo(); } return _foo; } } Is the previous code thread safe? Or do we need to lo...

I have some code where I use a thread static object in C#. [ThreadStatic] private DataContext connection I was wondering, in this case, what if any change would I get if I put the static modifi...

I am using ThreadStatic variables to store some data, but I am worried that the data I store on the thread will still be there after I am finished with it and release back to the ThreadPool. Do I n...

The ThreadStatic attribute declares a static variable as unique-per-thread. Do you know an easy pattern to correctly dispose such variables? What we used before ThreadStatic is a ThreadContextManag...