volatile is a variable modifier that guarantees visibility of changes between threads. Without it, each thread may cache a variable's value in a CPU register or L1/L2 cache and never see changes made by another thread. volatile disables caching and guarantees reads from main memory.
The Visibility Problem Without volatile
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