12. The method as recited in claim 11 further comprising: detecting, in the image processing pipeline, that fetching of the image data for at least one of the rows of tiles is complete; discarding, from the image processing pipeline, translations corresponding to the at least one row of tiles; and prefetching, in the image processing pipeline, an additional plurality of translations corresponding to an additional at least one row of tiles responsive to discarding the translations.
12. The method as recited in claim 11 further comprising: detecting, in the image processing pipeline, that fetching of the image data for at least one of the rows of tiles is complete; discarding, from the image processing pipeline, translations corresponding to the at least one row of tiles; and prefetching, in the image processing pipeline, an additional plurality of translations corresponding to an additional at least one row of tiles responsive to discarding the translations. 13. The method as recited in claim 12 wherein the processing pipeline is a user interface unit configured to fetch a static image.