Abstract: To maintain order in a pipelined process, a number of memory locations of a result memory are sequentially reserved for a number of processes as the processes are sequentially dispatched for execution. As an integral part of the sequential reservation, validity determination facilitators to be subsequently employed to correspondingly facilitate determining whether valid processing results of said processes have been stored into corresponding ones of said reserved memory locations are also pre-determined. Additionally, the reserved memory locations are sequentially read to sequentially accept the processing results in order. Each value read from a reserved memory location is accepted only if the corresponding validity determination facilitator exhibits a predetermined relationship with a corresponding validity determination reference value. The validity determination reference values are complementarily maintained and integrally obtained through the sequential read process.