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Thread local storage
A TLS slot for values of type 'a
. This allows the storage of a single value of type 'a
per thread.
val create : unit -> 'a t
Allocate a new TLS slot. The TLS slot starts uninitialised on each thread.
Note: each TLS slot allocated consumes a word per thread, and it can never be deallocated. create
should be called at toplevel to produce constants, do not use it in a loop.
val get_exn : 'a t -> 'a
get_exn x
returns the value previously stored in the TLS slot x
for the current thread.
This function is safe to use from asynchronous callbacks without risks of races.
val get_opt : 'a t -> 'a option
get_opt x
returns Some v
where v is the value previously stored in the TLS slot x
for the current thread. It returns None
if the TLS slot has not been initialised in the current thread.
This function is safe to use from asynchronous callbacks without risks of races.
val get_default : default:(unit -> 'a) -> 'a t -> 'a
get_default x ~default
returns the value previously stored in the TLS slot x
for the current thread. If the TLS slot has not been initialised, default ()
is called, and its result is returned instead, after being stored in the TLS slot x
.
If the call to default ()
raises an exception, then the TLS slot remains uninitialised. If default
is a function that always raises, then this function is safe to use from asynchronous callbacks without risks of races.
val set : 'a t -> 'a -> unit
set x v
stores v
into the TLS slot x
for the current thread.