[_stephan]

I'm curious whether the Retpoline mitigation will still be necessary/recommended for user applications (that don't operate as a JIT or interpreter) once the kernel and CPU mitigations for Spectre that are currently in the works have been applied.

[dingo_bat]

After the Intel microcode update it shouldn't be. At least according to Intel.

[PatchMonkey]

My jihad against JIT compilation finally finds its foothold!