> Transmeta style VLIW+JIT frontend seem to be viable, but I think they are as vulnerable to spectre as OoO CPUs. Transmeta's CPUs were in-order VLIW. The in-o

> Transmeta style VLIW+JIT frontend seem to be viable, but I think they are as vulnerable to spectre as OoO CPUs. Transmeta's CPUs were in-order VLIW. The in-order property at least makes them at least less prone to Spectre-like vulnerabilities, just like the CPU used in the Raspberry Pi which is also in-order: > https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulnerable-to-spectre-or-meltdown/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-raspberry-pi-isnt-vulne...