> 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 th

> 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.