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@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ Memory barriers come in four basic varieties:
to have any effect on loads.
A CPU can be viewed as committing a sequence of store operations to the
- memory system as time progresses. All stores before a write barrier will
- occur in the sequence _before_ all the stores after the write barrier.
+ memory system as time progresses. All stores _before_ a write barrier
+ will occur _before_ all the stores after the write barrier.
[!] Note that write barriers should normally be paired with read or data
dependency barriers; see the "SMP barrier pairing" subsection.