Mastering High Performance with Kotlin

Java Memory Model (JMM)

The JMM divides the memory space between thread stacks and the heap. Each application has at least one thread, which is referred to as the main thread. When a new thread starts, a new stack is created. If an application has several threads, the simplified memory model may look like this:

The thread stack is a stack of blocks. Whenever a thread calls a method, a new block is created and added to the stack. This is also referred to as the call stack. This block contains all the local variables that were created in its scope. The local variables cannot be shared between threads, even if threads are executing the same method. ...