> This is a bit disingenuous as any performant cpu worth it's salt will have operand bypassing.
Right, but that's an operation optimization. Nobody disputes that particular instructions (combined add/multiply) can be optimized and pipelined, but that's very different from claiming that arbitrary calculations no longer have dependent steps.
Right, but that's an operation optimization. Nobody disputes that particular instructions (combined add/multiply) can be optimized and pipelined, but that's very different from claiming that arbitrary calculations no longer have dependent steps.