Comment by ignoramous
5 months ago
> also mitigated Spectre v1 using a novel technique that I haven't heard of before
Unsure about iOS, but back then, Webkit published their initial mitigations (like: Index masking, Pointer poisoning): https://webkit.org/blog/8048/what-spectre-and-meltdown-mean-...
Yeah, this is what they came up with in the wake of those being released. They have a performance impact though.