1. A method comprising: identifying a dependence between two instructions in graphics processing instructions, one of the two instructions comprising a predecessor instruction and another of the two instructions comprising a successor instruction; determining an initial edge latency associated with the dependence between the predecessor and successor instructions, the initial edge latency being a hardware latency; determining an instruction distance corresponding to the predecessor and successor instructions; and reducing the initial edge latency by the determined instruction distance to determine a reduced edge latency associated with the dependence between the predecessor and successor instructions.