Amazon Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers






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JVM runs bytecode; sometimes it tries to run native code (HotSpot); it may (or may not) use some optimization tricks to make native code run faster.
For instance, it may try to replace reference to boolean onto actual value (true or false) if it believes nothing can change that value. So that by using "volatile" we are telling JVM that this value might be changed by another thread.

- bamba May 10, 2012 | Flag Reply
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volatile variable:
http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/news/qotm030.shtml

- newcup September 29, 2008 | Flag Reply
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http://www.javamex.com/tutorials/synchronization_volatile.shtml

- tejas June 10, 2009 | Flag Reply
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http://www.javamex.com/tutorials/synchronization_volatile.shtml

- tejas June 10, 2009 | Flag Reply
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Thanks newcup and tejas for very good links...:)

- master January 03, 2010 | Flag Reply
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with volatile variable we can make sure that multiple threads have exactly same copy of variable at any given time. Compared to Synchronized keyword access/update overhead is less as only single variable needs to be synchronized rather than every every field in the class.

- master January 03, 2010 | Flag Reply


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