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Pipelining

Time op0 op1 op2 op3
0 a0    
1 a1 a0   
2 a2 a1 a0  
3 a3 a2 a1 a0
4 a4 a3 a2 a1
... ... ... ... ...
n an an-1 an-2 an-3
4n/(4+n) clock cycles required to process n elements!
Author: Wolfgang Schreiner
Last modification: November 15, 1996