Thanks, that explains it! Didn't know that final fields have this special rule and that the value field in the String class is final. So to recap: this shouldn

Thanks, that explains it! Didn't know that final fields have this special rule and that the value field in the String class is final. So to recap: this shouldn't be possible for Strings, since the value field in the String class is final and therefore has a memory barrier. But it could happen for other classes with non-final fields.