As I understand it, it's the other way around: for x86 (which is TSO) the fence doesn't really matter because the "normal" load is already slowed down, but for

As I understand it, it's the other way around: for x86 (which is TSO) the fence doesn't really matter because the "normal" load is already slowed down, but for ARM it does matter quite a bit, see e.g. [0] (admittedly old blog post) slightly lower on the page. But perhaps we did get to the point where even ARM CPUs and surrounding memory is already performant enough so that spurious fences aren't as noticeable. [0] https://preshing.com/20140709/the-purpose-of-memory_order_consume-in-cpp11/#the-value-of-consume-semantics https://preshing.com/20140709/the-purpose-of-memory_order_co...