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_stephan on Jan 4, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: More details about mitigations for the CPU Specula...

I'm curious whether the Retpoline mitigation will still be necessary/recommended for user applications (that don't operate as a JIT or interpreter) once the kernel and CPU mitigations for Spectre that are currently in the works have been applied.

dingo_bat on Jan 5, 2018 | [–]

After the Intel microcode update it shouldn't be. At least according to Intel.

PatchMonkey on Jan 5, 2018 | [–]

My jihad against JIT compilation finally finds its foothold!

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