diff --git a/manuscrit/40_A72-frontend/30_manual_frontend.tex b/manuscrit/40_A72-frontend/30_manual_frontend.tex
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@@ -550,3 +550,12 @@ between processors' frontends. A comparative study of their respective
 importance to accurately model frontends, and ways to circumvent their impact
 on the measure of $\cycF{\kerK}$ to count \uops{} per instruction would also be
 needed.
+
+Such fully-automated methods would probably be unable to account for
+``unusual'' frontend bottlenecks ---~at least not at the level of detail that
+\eg{} \uica{} authors gather for Intel frontends~\cite{uica}. This level of
+detail, however, is possible exactly because the authors' restricted their
+scope to microarchitectures that share a lot of similarity, coming from the
+same manufacturer. Assessing extent of the loss of precision of an
+automatically-generated model, and its gain of precision \wrt{} a model without
+frontend, remains to be done.