The misty “Unsafe” in Java
The Depths of “Unsafe” class in Java
9 min readJun 22, 2022
The Unsafe
class is the basis for implementing CAS in Java. In this article, we will understand more about Unsafe and its capabilities.
The name of the class Unsafe comes from the fact that it deals with. The sun.misc.Unsafe
is really meant to be a low-level VM library interface designed to be used strictly within the JDK. It is…