Well said. I will just add that there are cache write-through instructions and fence instructions. You can use these for just the pointer swap components the pa

Well said. I will just add that there are cache write-through instructions and fence instructions. You can use these for just the pointer swap components the parent was talking about, but absolutely you’re correct, you can just take a naive data structure and have this work out of the box. There is work to make this transparent to existing data structures, but it (of course) imposes its own overhead.