// Mainly checking for state violation here to perform a volatile read of "initialized" to
// ensure updates to operationLimter et al are visible to this thread (ie we're doing
// "piggy-back" synchronization here).
// Mainly checking for state violation here to perform a volatile read of "initialized" to
// ensure updates to operationLimter et al are visible to this thread (ie we're doing
// "piggy-back" synchronization here).