This had been a consistent problem with quantum computers - - they come up with a quantum computer that can basically do one thing and compare it against a gene

This had been a consistent problem with quantum computers - - they come up with a quantum computer that can basically do one thing and compare it against a general piece of software not tuned for that problem. Once the software is tuned for the exact problem it is much closer in performance to the quantum computer. The same thing arises with dwave.