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Well, there is the Landauer's principle (which is related to Maxwell's daemon): there is a physical lower limit to the cost of computations. https://en.wikipedi
by jgeada 10y ago
Well, there is the Landauer's principle (which is related to Maxwell's daemon): there is a physical lower limit to the cost of computations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
So yes, there is a physical cost to non-reversible computation.
- kanzure 10y agosee also: "Ultimate physical limits to computation" http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9908043v3.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9908043v3.pdf "Limits on fundamental limits to computation" http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.3821v2 http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.3821v2 "The physics of information processing superobjects: daily life among the Jupiter brains" http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/The%20physics%20of%20information%20processing%20superobjects%20-%20Anders%20Sandberg%20-%201999.pdf http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/The%20physics%20of%20informa...