AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater
Explore the use of AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater in Java to atomically update volatile fields. Understand its role in improving performance by avoiding atomic variables, and learn how it enables atomic operations on ordinary object fields in concurrent programming.
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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 ...