Confusion with this Acquire fence

1 · Users Rust Lang · June 19, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
Summary
The blog post discusses the application of Acquire and Release fences in Rust's atomic operations, specifically focusing on the `Drop` implementation of `Arc<T>`. The author seeks clarification on how the Acquire fence ensures that no other threads access shared data during the decrement of a reference count. The explanation revolves around the intricacies of atomic memory ordering in Rust as illustrated by a code snippet from the book 'Rust Atomics and Locks'.