$ java -jar target/jcstress.jar -t FinalFieldPublicationTest -jvmArgs "-Xmx256m" -f 2 -iters 15 -time 1000 RUN RESULTS: Interesting tests: No matches. Failed tests: No matches. Error tests: No matches. All remaining tests: 1 matching test results. .......... [OK] com.ankurm.jmm.FinalFieldPublicationTest Results across all configurations: RESULT SAMPLES FREQ EXPECT DESCRIPTION 0, 0 3,697,560,129 66.13% Acceptable Reader ran before the write was published at all. 0, 1 0 0.00% Forbidden Would mean the final-field safe-publication guarantee fai... 1, 0 0 0.00% Forbidden Would mean the final-field safe-publication guarantee fai... 1, 1 1,893,699,349 33.87% Acceptable Reader saw the fully-constructed FinalPayload.