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

The second one is very bad in terms of readability, first one is suitable. Have a look at this article. Its about double check locking, but also will give you wide information about singletons multithreading.