People on this website, in systems programming communities, and in articles about performance are constantly telling people not to use fair locks because they'r

People on this website, in systems programming communities, and in articles about performance are constantly telling people not to use fair locks because they're slower, arguing that the overhead of fair locking is far too high for the problem it solves, which (they say) practically never occurs anyway on modern machines. It's hard to blame people for taking them up on it.