Quotes About Volatile

When a field is declared volatile, the compiler and runtime are put on notice that this variable is shared and that operations on it should not be reordered with other memory operations. Volatile variables are not cached in registers or in caches where they are hidden from other processors, so a read of a volatile variable always returns the most recent write by any thread.

Good uses of volatile variables include ensuring the visibility of their own state, that of the object they refer to, or indicating that an important lifecycle event (such as initialization or shutdown) has occurred.

Those without a true sense of history fail to see how volatile and transient human leadership is, even on the scale of empires. When viewed from the perspective of a mere lifetime, we tend to see our governmental structures as permanent and unchangeable. This is entirely false. —FAYKAN CORRINO I, first Emperor after the Butlerian Jihad

We are bathed in light, endless light, sometimes volatile, ever changing. We watch weather as one watches fire.

My career is just kind of crazy.

We all know that Kim Jong-il is 'buy-yourself-a-handgun' crazy. It's pretty much a given.

The point is the three of you are dysfunctional, volatile, inefficient, and in my way.

The unlead are always fickle.

Yet accessing a volatile variable performs no locking and so cannot cause the executing thread to block, making volatile variables a lighter-weight synchronization mechanism than synchronized.[5]

However, we do not recommend relying too heavily on volatile variables for visibility; code that relies on volatile variables for visibility of arbitrary state is more fragile and harder to understand than code that uses locking.

You can use volatile variables only when all the following criteria are met: Writes to the variable do not depend on its current value, or you can ensure that only a single thread ever updates the value; The variable does not participate in invariants with other state variables; and Locking is not required for any other reason while the variable is being accessed.

A special case of thread confinement applies to volatile variables. It is safe to perform read-modify-write operations on shared volatile variables as long as you ensure that the volatile variable is only written from a single thread. In this case, you are confining the modification to a single thread to prevent race conditions, and the visibility guarantees for volatile variables ensure that other threads see the most up-to-date value. Because

Everybody has a temper, but mine was set on a hair trigger.

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

Public taste is as fickle as a child's attention span

predictably unpredictable

In a company like Gucci, you can lose millions and millions in a second.

People seek the society of others who are exciting, disconcerting and volatile, who are never the same from one moment to the next and usually change complexion completely.

My temper's only like a summer storm. It's over in a minute.

But, nevertheless, it is anything but agreeable to be haunted by a suspicion that one's intellect is dwindling away, or exhaling, without your consciousness, like ether out of a phial: so that, at every glance, you find a smaller and less volatile residuum.

Emma has switched from sanguine to sanguinary in a matter of seconds

I can be very moody.

I am a very moody person.

My personality is extremely unbalanced.