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Q&AWhat is false sharing in Java, and how can it hurt throughput?
Independent hot fields on one cache line can cause cores to invalidate each other’s cache copies.
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False sharing occurs when separate variables frequently written by different cores share a hardware cache line. The values are logically independent, but cache-coherence traffic makes updates contend. Confirm with profiling and workload measurements before padding or using specialized structures; layout optimizations are hardware- and JVM-sensitive.