No -- for a lock-free design with a single producer and consumer, it's possible both are typically writing to independent regions of memory. With a lock, both have to write the same cache line to take and release the lock.
Rust (which is what we're discussing here) actually doesn't promise this in general. But for the three operating systems you mentioned that is in fact what it delivers because as another commenter mentioned it's table stakes. If your OS can't do this it's a toy OS.
The Windows and Linux solutions are by Mara Bos (the MacOS one might be too, I don't know)
The Windows one is very elegant but opaque. Basically Microsoft provides an appropriate API ("Slim Reader/Writer Locks") and Mara's code just uses that API.
The Linux one shows exactly how to use a Futex: if you know what a futex is, yeah, Rust just uses a futex. If you don't, go read about the Futex, it's clever.
