乘法加法运算的后期转发意味着可以在乘法完成后使加数可用，而不是在乘法加法开始时必须可用执行.由于乘法本身不依赖于加数的数据，因此可以继续进行.由于加法的一些工作可以与乘法并行进行(乘积的指数将尽早使用，并且可以与加数的指数一起使用以确定加法之前所需的移位量)，因此可能希望加数为在整个产品可用之前就可以使用了，但是即使在这种情况下，也不需要加数，直到被乘数晚得多.

Late forwarding for multiply-add operations means that the addend can be made available after the multiplication has completed rather than having to be available when the multiply-add operation begins execution. Since the multiplication itself is not data dependent on the addend, it can proceed. Since some work for the addition can be done in parallel with the multiplication (the exponent of the product will be available early and can be used with the addend's exponent to determine the amount of shift needed before addition), one may want the addend to be available before the entire product is available, but even in that case the addend is not needed until much later than the multiplicands.

通过延迟加数的转发(可用性)，减少了相关累加的有效等待时间.这减少了需要覆盖等待时间的累加寄存器(和并行性)的数量.

By delaying the forwarding (availability) of the addend, the effective latency of dependent accumulations is reduced. This reduces the number of accumulation registers (and parallelism) one needs to cover the latency.