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Thanks, good catch - it is indeed the number of cycles. I had reorganized that sentence planning to move the number of cycles and instead it just got dropped.

Fixed and credited. Now it says:

> Let's say the load takes 300 cycles to finish, which is a typical latency. Then, on an Haswell machine with a ROB size of 192...

https://github.com/travisdowns/travisdowns.github.io/commit/...



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