std::mem_order_consume

Introduction

That is for two reasons that std::memory_order_consume is the most legendary of the six memory models: first, std::memory_order_consume is extremely hard to understand, and second - which may change in the future - no compiler currently supports it. With C++17 the situation gets even worse. Here is the official wording: “The specification of release-consume ordering is being revised, and the use of memory_order_consume is temporarily ...