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QMASM: A Quantum Macro Assembler

• sk1zzyk1d 10y ago
  I wonder how much "shielding" is good, however, for the programmer. This is exciting for me, but I also think the assemblers should teach programmers the deep technical components of quantum computing systems like D-Wave's adiabatic quantum computers. A project to watch, for sure.
  • krastanov 10y ago
    It is a common and significant misconception that D-Wave is an "adiabatic quantum computer". Adiabatic quantum computers for instance would be able to factor numbers in polynomial time (or more generally, adiabatic quantum computers have the full power of quantum computation, i.e. they efficiently solve problems in the BQP class). D-Wave, while being an interesting computing machine, is definitely not a general quantum computer (not even they claim that anymore). Moreover, classical computers have proven to be better at the optimization problems D-Wave was specifically designed for.
• Klasiaster 10y ago
  There is a debate on whether this architecture gives any advantage over classical computer architectures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems
  • krastanov 10y ago
    Calling it a "debate" might be giving too much credit to D-Wave. Nobody, not even they anymore, is claiming that this is a machine capable of more efficient computations than a classical Turing machine (as opposed to a quantum circuit). By "efficient computation" I mean asymptotically polynomial. Moreover, experimenting with the actual hardware has shown that a classical computer is practically better than this machine (in terms of money, electricity, or time).