Volatile explained

[Yann.Secq@xxxxxxx (Yann SECQ)]

Klas Lindbäck (ERA) wrote: 
> A volatile variable may not be cached locally in a thread.
> Every time the value of a volatile variable is accessed within one
> thread it is read from main memory.
> Clearly, volatile is useful only in multithreaded applications.

Yes, but it's more on multiprocessors system that this feature is
useful,
and it seems that no JVM are compliant to this definition.

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