On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > I'm just pointing out that our computational technology uses > over a million times more energy than the theoretical minimum, and > therefore there is a lot of room for efficiency gains without sacrificing > computer power. I never imagined that such viewpoint would turn out to be > so controversial.
The way I understand it, you're citing an extremely theoretical minimum, in the same way that one can point out that we're a long way from maximum entropy in a flash memory chip, so it ought to be possible to pack a lot more data onto a USB stick. The laws of physics tend to put boundaries that are ridiculously far from where we actually work - I think most roads have speed limits that run a fairly long way short of c. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
