What's the actual optimization though?

plasma · on Nov 28, 2020

The tweet author in the linked thread later writes:

"Weaker memory model makes acquire-release atomics possible to implement much more efficiently, in exchange for not hiding some classes of multithreading bugs"

tambourine_man · on Nov 28, 2020

Have you read the tweet and thread? If so, I don’t understand what you’re asking.

spankalee · on Nov 28, 2020

Twitter wasn't making the relevant responses really visible. _kbh_ pointed it out