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x86 has total store ordering, which requires to add barriers to make the order respected on Arm while doing emulation. On newer Arm chips, barriers are much cheaper, solving the problem.


Not only that, but Apple if they wanted to could strengthen the memory model of their custom chips, meaning the barriers wouldn't be necessary during emulation.




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