well duh!  the point is they may be fast enough!

Chris Huff wrote:
> 
> In article <399676FC.344E3B22@yahoo.com>, ryan constantine
> <rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> 
> > actually, alternative computers such as quantum computers may achieve
> > such high speeds in the not-so-distant future once they leave the
> > academia stage and can be put to real uses.
> 
> Actually, when quantum computers are seriously working, we are probably
> going to have to find a new way of measuring processing power. They
> probably won't have a MHz rating, though there may be some sort of
> sample rate for transferring data. There will probably be a rating for
> number of simultaneous operations, and minimum operation time.
> From what I understand of them, they are just too different to use the
> same units we use today, like MHz or even megaflops(or petaflops, for
> that matter).
> 
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