On Pentium and above processors, there are situations where two paired instructions will not execute at the same time, or only partially overlap, becoming an imperfect pair. They're still considered a pair because the first instruction executes in the U-Pipe and the second in the V-Pipe. No following instruction can start to execute before both instructions have been finished.

Imperfect pairing occurs in the following cases:

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