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		barfoomoo on Nov 9, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things you didn't know about multithreaded program... Reference field update operations in Java are not thread safe?

jbellis on Nov 9, 2010 [–]

reference updates are atomic, but without volatile (or more heavyweight synchronization) there may be an arbitrary delay before the change is visible to other threads.

barfoomoo on Nov 9, 2010 | [–]

Thanks for that.

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