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Spectre variant 1 is only really a problem for JITs, and it's mitigated with masking. Disabling speculation to defeat variant 1 is probably not worth the perfo
by Scaevolus 9y ago
Spectre variant 1 is only really a problem for JITs, and it's mitigated with masking. Disabling speculation to defeat variant 1 is probably not worth the performance cost.
- hansendc 9y agoDisclaimer: I work on software (Linux) at Intel. There are certainly non-JIT-related mitigations out there. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=56c30ba7b348b90484969054d561f711ba196507 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...