Latency of the loop

To make pipelining possible, conditional statements are converted into two parallel paths, both of which will be executed, and the correct output will be chosen by a multiplexer in the end. So, no, the loop latency does not depend on which condition is taken. However, the latency mentioned in the report is the MINIMUM latency WITHOUT considering stallable accesses (global memory, local memory, channels). The actual latency at run-time could be much higher due to pipeline stalls caused by such accesses.