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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.

Yeah, you are right, I was not clear in my wording.

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