cons and pros to implement arithmetic shifting (signed extention)

Hi, I hardly understand :

you want for example to shift right "10101110" by L=4, which becomes "11111010" (without forgetting to fill the sign of the data as you wanted arithmetic) . the number of shifting L can vary, right ?

Several ways to make that :

In one clock, you can extend "10101110" to "111110101110" and take the first 8 bits. A begin of an idea.

In L=4 clocks, you can shift one bit at a time and use counter to count L=4 shifting

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use three D blocks in series

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to shift max 8 bits ?, how do you schematize that ?

Case statement : hope the synthesizer will be clever, otherwise it will create MUX.