On 1/10/2011 3:08 PM, Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> Yeah, what I was talking about was a programmatic attempt at applying
>> logical reversibility. The stuff you are talking about is completely
>> different.
>
> Logical reversibility hasn't anything to do with saving energy, altho it
> might have something to do with speeding up computations. obviously,
> logical reversibility is a necessary precursor to physical reversibility.
>
Well, in the specific article I read, but don't have anymore, the idea 
was to work out the least costly set of steps, which may include 
reversing them, to produce an equal, or lower, energy state, whenever 
possible, and not using quantum computers either. But, what ever.

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void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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