// in the opposite order from how they were added so we need to reverse the list to fulfill our
    // contract.
    // This is somewhat annoying, but turns out to be very fast in practice. Alternatively, we could
    // drop the contract on the method that enforces this queue like behavior since depending on it
    // is likely to be a bug anyway.

    // N.B. All writes to the list and the next pointers must have happened before the above