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I'm curious as to whether the techniques used here are safe against Spectre-like attacks. There appears to be a heavy reliance on indirect branching. The slides

I'm curious as to whether the techniques used here are safe against Spectre-like attacks. There appears to be a heavy reliance on indirect branching. The slides here are dated just before Spectre was published, so it would not have been a concern at the time.

coldtea 4y ago
>I'm curious as to whether the techniques used here are safe against Spectre-like attacks Because people will be compromising your GNU poke or Jitter code?
- sparkie 4y ago
  Not poke per se, but Jitter is intended to be a retargetable interpreter for other programming languages, so maybe.