Singleton pattern with combination of lazy loading and thread safety

Question

I was doing some research about singletons, specifically regarding lazy vs eager initialization of singletons.

An example of eager initialization:

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Answer 1

Your second code snippet is, in my opinion, the best way of thread-safe lazily initializing a singleton. It actually has a pattern name

Initialization-on-demand holder idiom

I would suggest you use it.