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Understanding volatile in Java, and Why It's Not a Replacement for Synchronization
By Sachin Gupta4 min read
What Java's volatile keyword actually guarantees (visibility of writes across threads) and what it does not (atomicity and mutual exclusion), and why compound operations still need synchronization.
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