Github user ehedgehog commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/jena/pull/157
This http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4633866/is-volatile-expensive
suggests that volatile reads are cheap enough that worrying about
"optimising" by only checking occasionally is bootless. I'll simplify the
code in the next round.
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