Comment by sparkie
3 years ago
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.
>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?
Not poke per se, but Jitter is intended to be a retargetable interpreter for other programming languages, so maybe.