What is the dangers of Global Variables in Drupal specifically?

What are the dangers of using global variables?

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    When using that variable in multithread context. All operations on that variable must be guarded by a locking mechanism (which are not very nice and time friendly) or atomic operations. And if you use this variable as a state holder, you are f..... I'm not saying don't use global variables, because it is imposible not to use them, but limit them.

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