For some of them, absolutely. I change the assembly output and reassemble to verify that the atomics are necessary and fixing the cases I think they do. As fa

For some of them, absolutely. I change the assembly output and reassemble to verify that the atomics are necessary and fixing the cases I think they do. As far as I'm concerned, if you're not removing the atomic instructions to make sure the breaks happen that you expect to happen, you're not really testing your code.