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C++ Details of Asymmetric Fences


Asymmetric Fences? While browsing through Folly’s synchronization primitives to study up on concurrency concepts, one familiar-looking name in the codebase caught my attention: Asymmetric Thread Fence. I already knew what std::atomic_thread_fence is meant to achieve, but what does this construct do? And what exactly is asymmetric about it?

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