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On Fri, 4 May 2018, speck for Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> Teaching the interpreter to do this is trivial, for the JIT we would
> emit a "CALL $asm_pre_thunk" as first instruction and "CALL
> $asm_post_thunk" before every RET.
> 
> And when it doesn't need to mitigate, don't issue the instructions at
> all.

Ack, that sounds better.

           Linus