ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Shelving buffer

Okay kiddo, imagine you're at a store and you have a lot of things you want to buy. But you can't carry all of them with you at the same time. So, you put some items in a special place called the 'shelving buffer'. It's like a little shelf where you can temporarily store things until you're ready to take them with you. That way, you can keep shopping and come back to the shelving buffer whenever you want to pick up the things you left there. It's really helpful so you don't have to carry everything all at once and can keep your hands free. In computer science, a shelving buffer is something similar that can hold data temporarily before it's processed or used in a program. It helps organize and save data until it's ready to be used later on.