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candidate · p2026-09-06-205 · reject-definition

Retpoline, KPTI and the other Spectre mitigations

set aside as
DEFINITION REJECTS
the researcher's note
Retpoline, KPTI and the other Spectre mitigations — hand-written code; the cost of a learned predictor, not themselves learned.
proposed by
researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06, quiet-adoptions
received
2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00
harvest report
impacts/harvest/2026-09-06-quiet-adoptions.md

Rulings, in order

  1. 2026-09-06T09:39:39-04:00 · researcherreject-definition — Retpoline, KPTI and the other Spectre mitigations — hand-written code; the cost of a learned predictor, not themselves learned.
The proposal as it arrived (JSON)
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