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Instruction Reordering & Memory Barriers
Tests whether you know the compiler, JIT, and CPU are all free to reorder instructions that have no data dependency on each other for performance, and that memory barriers (which volatile and synchronized insert) are the explicit fences that prevent specific reorderings across a thread-visibility boundary.
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