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A72 frontend: add example of front-bottleneck

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load, fmadd, fmadd, store
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* FP0
* FP1
* Frontend: 3 insn/cycle
* very limiting compared to its backend (TODO: example?)
* very limiting compared to its backend.
* Example: 2nd-order polynomial calculation:
```
P[i] = aX[i]² + bX[i] + c
<=> P[i] = (a*X[i] + b) * X[i] + c
<=> P[i] = (a*X[i] + b); P[i] = P[i] * X[i] + c
```
so load, FMAdd, FMAdd, store. Backend OK, frontend bottleneck.
* Very few hardware counters regarding the frontend! In particular, no access
*at all* to macro-ops. No micro-op count.