Let us evaluate the obtained expression (IV). From (IV) it can be concluded that the time to load the monitor to SRAM should be shorter than the time taken by reading the flash status after the page programming operations. In other words, the inequality (IV) never holds if the monitor size in words is bigger than the number of polls for flash status (assuming that the read operation and write operation takes the same number of shifts). Number of polls for flash status depends on the number of flash pages to program, which has direct relation to the size of the image to be programmed. Hence, the hybridonline mode (in the form it is described here) will likely to be slower than the online mode for small images.