If they had it multithreaded, the execution ports could be used on the other threads while one thread is affected by RAM latency. And if there is a pointer cha

If they had it multithreaded, the execution ports could be used on the other threads while one thread is affected by RAM latency. And if there is a pointer chasey task that isn't utilizing all of the core and is waiting on memory and data dependencies, often that just makes threading a bigger win, 16 threads doing pointer chases instead of one if you aren't memory bandwidth bound.