Instruction fetches can be done in chunks with the assumption that much of the time you are going to run through many instructions in a row. so instruction fetches can be more efficient, there is likely a handful or more clocks of overhead per transaction then the delay for the memory to have the data ready then a clock per width of the bus for th...

will result in a pc relative load

the ldr instruction will be part of a cache line fetch, an instruction fetch (along with a bunch more instruction...