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That why the solution is to only allow speculation when it's "ok". M1 is believed to have a number of Spectre-esq security mechanisms built into it to determine just that. For example: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20200192673A1

Also, In dougallj's code [1] the zero of registers should be superfluous so it is assumed the function below is needed to make the experiments run stably by claiming ownership of the registers as part of a general anti-speculation security mechanism.

static int add_prep(uint32_t *ibuf, int instr_type);

The M1 explainer [2] has lot of interesting ideas like this contained inside it.

[1] https://gist.github.com/dougallj/5bafb113492047c865c0c8cfbc9...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28549954