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    On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:02:46 -0800 (PST)
    dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org> wrote:

    > > Bulk ops (string ops, etc.) will do full cacheline writes too,
    > > without filling in the cacheline.
    >
    > on intel with fast strings enabled yes. mind you intel gives hints in
    > the documentation these operations don't respect coherence... and i
    > asked about this when they posted their memory ordering paper but got
    > no response.

    I know there's an answer on the way; it just needs to get checked by
    architects for cpus we shipped in like the last 10 years ;)

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