AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater

Guide to understanding and using AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater.

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Overview

The class AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater is one of the three field updater classes. The field updater classes exist primarily for performance reasons. Instead of using atomic variables, one can use ordinary variables that ...