This document discusses optimizing a for loop to perform scalar versus vector processing. (a) To perform vector processing, the code is translated to use vector loads and stores with a vector length of 64 for B, C, D, and A arrays. (b) The number of cycles for scalar and vector processing is calculated based on information about the number of cycles different operations take. Scalar processing takes 1700 cycles for the full loop, while vector processing takes 17 cycles for a vector length of 64.