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@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ The fundamentals are:
 * Once the loop is completed *only then* is the Program Counter
   allowed to move to the next instruction.
 
+Hardware implementors are free and clear to implement this as literally a for-loop in hardware (and simulators), sitting in between instruction decode and issue.  Higher performance systems may deploy SIMD backends and multi-issue, although it is strongly recommended to add predication capability into all SIMD backend units.
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 In OpenPOWER ISA v3.0B pseudo-code form, an ADD operation, assuming both source and destination have been "tagged" as Vectors, is simply:
 
     for i = 0 to VL-1: