In case nobody's realized it, there's an obvious analog of Spectre with lock elision via transactional memory.
Code inside critical section assumes lock invariants, but they won't necessarily be true if another thread has the lock.
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This can lead to speculative execution doing wildly wrong things, and presumably exposing the outcomes via cache side effects.
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