Atomicity and Atomics. Lock-free Thread Safety

java.util.concurrent.atomic contains classes for lock-free atomic operations. They use the CPU instruction Compare-And-Swap (CAS) — a hardware atomic operation. This is faster than synchronized, especially under low contention.

AtomicInteger — The Core Class

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