Yes. They are much, much more likely to do the right thing than what one can cook up themselves. And if used correctly, work consistently and performantly acros

Yes. They are much, much more likely to do the right thing than what one can cook up themselves. And if used correctly, work consistently and performantly across platforms (e.g. in theory at least, release and acquire barriers could be just a full stop-the-world memory barrier on one platform, and something more granular on another).