That would depend on how and what you can feed it? Say if you'd got a backend for something like LLVM, which emits the µOps directly, thereby circumventing the

That would depend on how and what you can feed it? Say if you'd got a backend for something like LLVM, which emits the µOps directly, thereby circumventing the instruction decoder, if technically/architecturally possible at all. Instead of going through the instruction decoder.