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Comment by NobleExpress

MESI cache coherency (and its derivatives) [1] means that you can have exclusive writes to cache if and only if no other core tries to access that data. I would think most if not all microarchitectures have moved to MESI (or equivalent) cache coherency protocols as they avoid unnecessary writes to memory.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MESI

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