Rustom Mody wrote:
JFTR: Information processing and (physics) energy are about as convertible as say: "Is a kilogram smaller/greater than a mile?"
Actually, that's not true. There is a fundamental thermodynamic limit on the minimum energy needed to flip a bit from one state to the other, so in that sense there's a relationship between watts and bits per second. We're nowhere near reaching that limit with current technology, though. In principle, our CPUs could be a lot more energy-efficient. (That doesn't mean they would convert a smaller proportion of their energy input into heat. It means they would need less energy input in the first place). -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list