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#### 14.2.10.1.4 General Memory Barriers

A general memory barrier gives a guarantee that all the LOAD and STORE operations specified before the barrier will appear to happen before all the LOAD and STORE operations specified after the barrier with respect to the other components of the system.

A general memory barrier is a partial ordering over both loads and stores.

General memory barriers imply both read and write memory barriers, and so can substitute for either.