You're right, I guess. On devices where the memory (sram) tends not to have its own clock (and there is no OOO), it can effectively be one cpu cycle. PIC and ES

You're right, I guess. On devices where the memory (sram) tends not to have its own clock (and there is no OOO), it can effectively be one cpu cycle. PIC and ESP-32 comes to mind. If there is 'extra' not on chip memory, it'd be way worse, of course.