How to create static method that evaluates local static variable once?

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Published on 2010-03-20T11:56:06Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 12:01 UTC
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I have a class with static method which has a local static variable. I want that variable to be computed/evaluated once (the 1st time I call the function) and for any subsequent invocation, it is not evaluated anymore. How to do that? Here's my class:

template<
    typename T1 = int, unsigned N1 = 1,
    typename T2 = int, unsigned N2 = 0,
    typename T3 = int, unsigned N3 = 0,
    typename T4 = int, unsigned N4 = 0,
    typename T5 = int, unsigned N5 = 0,
    typename T6 = int, unsigned N6 = 0,
    typename T7 = int, unsigned N7 = 0,
    typename T8 = int, unsigned N8 = 0,
    typename T9 = int, unsigned N9 = 0,
    typename T10 = int, unsigned N10 = 0,
    typename T11 = int, unsigned N11 = 0,
    typename T12 = int, unsigned N12 = 0,
    typename T13 = int, unsigned N13 = 0,
    typename T14 = int, unsigned N14 = 0,
    typename T15 = int, unsigned N15 = 0,
    typename T16 = int, unsigned N16 = 0>
struct GroupAlloc
{
    static const uint32_t sizeClass;
    static uint32_t getSize()
    {
        static uint32_t totalSize = 0;

        totalSize += sizeof(T1)*N1;
        totalSize += sizeof(T2)*N2;
        totalSize += sizeof(T3)*N3;
        totalSize += sizeof(T4)*N4;

        totalSize += sizeof(T5)*N5;
        totalSize += sizeof(T6)*N6;
        totalSize += sizeof(T7)*N7;
        totalSize += sizeof(T8)*N8;

        totalSize += sizeof(T9)*N9;
        totalSize += sizeof(T10)*N10;
        totalSize += sizeof(T11)*N11;
        totalSize += sizeof(T12)*N12;

        totalSize += sizeof(T13)*N13;
        totalSize += sizeof(T14)*N14;
        totalSize += sizeof(T15)*N15;
        totalSize += sizeof(T16)*N16;

        totalSize = 8*((totalSize + 7)/8);

        return totalSize;
    }
};

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