> Java’s primitives and references are guaranteed to be “tear-free”, which guarantees no “out-of-thin-air” values Tear-free does not imply no out-of-thin-air.

> Java’s primitives and references are guaranteed to be “tear-free”, which guarantees no “out-of-thin-air” values Tear-free does not imply no out-of-thin-air. But, afaik, the java memory model protects from both tearing and oota.