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Ok.. so it can ISSUE 16 instructions per clock, but how many clocks does it take to actually process each instruction? Is VERY long instruction processing time the reason for '1024 instructions in flight'? That looks like 64 or more clocks to complete a given instruction. If there are variable completion rates, how the heck do you sync up the many threads you have 'flying'