Regarding ThreadLocal and Volatile
surya.raaj prakash Ranch Hand Joined: Oct 30, 2009 Posts: 76	posted 12/18/2009 3:22:24 AM
	Hi Friends, can you explain to me what is difference between ThreadLocal and Volatile?and when to use ThreadLocal class and Volatile? Actually I'm confusing with these two concepts.
Henry Wong author Sheriff Joined: Sep 28, 2004 Posts: 17379        31 I like...	posted 12/19/2009 7:11:59 AM
	surya.raaj prakash wrote:can you explain to me what is difference between ThreadLocal and Volatile?and when to use ThreadLocal class and Volatile? Actually I'm confusing with these two concepts. They are not really related. The ThreadLocal class is a class that stores a variable in the Thread object of the current running thread, hence, while each thread can share the same ThreadLocal instance, they are not really sharing the underlying variable at all. The volatile keyword tells the compiler that the variable is shared, and likely shared without synchronization (or just treat it as such)... Caching of the variable in registers will not be allowed (reads direct from memory, writes go straight to memory), certain code motion optimization will not be allowed, and in the case of long and double, the JVM will make sure that read and writes are atomic, even if the underlying hardware don't support 64 bit atomic operations. Henry