Code reviewHardcr-g585

Subject Concurrency stale read visibilityLevel Senior–Staff~30 minCommon in Concurrency interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Review this Java background worker that's stopped by a flag.

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Separate real bugs from style. Rank issues by severity, point at the root cause rather than the symptom, and suggest a concrete fix — specific and kind.

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Code to reviewjava

1class Worker implements Runnable {2    private boolean running = true;3 4    public void stop() { running = false; }5 6    public void run() {7        while (running) {8            process();9        }10        cleanup();11    }12}

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