title: ThreadStatic vs. ThreadLocal<T> Performance: speedups or alternatives?
body: <p>I recently read <a href="http://tips.x-tensive.com/2008/10/cost-of-threadstatic-attribute.html" rel="noreferrer">this post about poor performance of fields marked ThreadStatic</a> - they're apparently 60x slower than normal field access. Does .NET 4's ThreadLocal&lt; T > perform any better?</p>
  
  <p>Are there any alternatives that offer high performance thread-specific storage?</p>