是的，我经常使用它——它对多线程代码非常有用。你指的那篇文章很好。不过有两件重要的事情要记住:

You should only use volatile if you completely understand what it does and how it differs to synchronized. In many situations volatile appears, on the surface, to be a simpler more performant alternative to synchronized, when often a better understanding of volatile would make clear that synchronized is the only option that would work. volatile doesn't actually work in a lot of older JVMs, although synchronized does. I remember seeing a document that referenced the various levels of support in different JVMs but unfortunately I can't find it now. Definitely look into it if you're using Java pre 1.5 or if you don't have control over the JVMs that your program will be running on.

是的，当你想要一个可变变量被多个线程访问时，必须使用volatile。这不是很常见的用例，因为通常你需要执行不止一个原子操作(例如，在修改变量之前检查变量状态)，在这种情况下，你会使用同步块代替。

是的，我经常使用它——它对多线程代码非常有用。你指的那篇文章很好。不过有两件重要的事情要记住:

You should only use volatile if you completely understand what it does and how it differs to synchronized. In many situations volatile appears, on the surface, to be a simpler more performant alternative to synchronized, when often a better understanding of volatile would make clear that synchronized is the only option that would work. volatile doesn't actually work in a lot of older JVMs, although synchronized does. I remember seeing a document that referenced the various levels of support in different JVMs but unfortunately I can't find it now. Definitely look into it if you're using Java pre 1.5 or if you don't have control over the JVMs that your program will be running on.

使用volatile的一个常见示例是使用volatile布尔变量作为终止线程的标志。如果您已经启动了一个线程，并且希望能够安全地从另一个线程中断它，您可以让线程定期检查标志。要阻止它，将标志设置为true。通过将标志设置为易失性，可以确保正在检查它的线程在下次检查时看到它已经设置好，甚至不必使用同步块。

每个访问volatile字段的线程在继续之前都会读取它的当前值，而不是(可能)使用缓存的值。

只有成员变量可以是易变的或瞬变的。

从oracle文档页，需要volatile变量来修复内存一致性问题:

使用易失性变量可以降低内存一致性错误的风险，因为对易失性变量的任何写入都会与该变量的后续读取建立happens-before关系。

这意味着对volatile变量的更改总是对其他线程可见。这也意味着当线程读取一个volatile变量时，它不仅看到了volatile的最新更改，还看到了导致更改的代码的副作用。

正如在Peter Parker的回答中解释的那样，在没有volatile修饰符的情况下，每个线程的堆栈都可能有自己的变量副本。通过将变量设置为volatile，可以修复内存一致性问题。

为了更好地理解，请查看jenkov教程页面。

看一下相关的SE问题，了解更多关于volatile的细节和使用volatile的用例:

Java中volatile和synchronized的区别

一个实际的用例:

你有很多线程，它们需要以特定的格式打印当前时间，例如:java.text.SimpleDateFormat("HH-mm-ss")。可以有一个类，它将当前时间转换为SimpleDateFormat，并每一秒更新一次变量。所有其他线程都可以使用这个易失性变量在日志文件中打印当前时间。