In
,
write barrier is a mechanism for enforcing a particular ordering in a sequence of writes to a storage system in a computer system. For example, a write barrier in a
file system is a mechanism (program logic) that ensures that in-memory file system state is written out to persistent storage in the correct order.
In garbage collection
A write barrier in a garbage collector is a fragment of code emitted by the compiler immediately before every store operation to ensure that (e.g.) generational invariants are maintained.
In computer storage
A write barrier in a
memory hierarchy, also known as a
memory barrier, is a hardware-specific compiler intrinsic that ensures that all preceding memory operations
happened-before all subsequent ones.
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