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In that case, you may also enjoy Bennett's 1982 paper on the thermodynamics of computation: www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/IBMJTheorPhys(21)905.p
by tedsanders 10y ago
In that case, you may also enjoy Bennett's 1982 paper on the thermodynamics of computation: www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/IBMJTheorPhys(21)905.pdf
That said, there are a lot of subtle assumptions wrapped up in the Landauer limit (related to the 2nd law of thermodynamics and the notion of 'erasure') and my personal opinion is that the limit is easily overrated before those subtleties are appreciated.