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Re:QMASM: A Quantum Macro Assembler by sk1zzyk1d on Friday January 13, 2017 @01:20PM (#13393112)
I wonder how much "shielding" is good, however, for the programmer. This is exciting for me, but I also think the assemblers should teach programmers the deep technical components of quantum computing systems like D-Wave's adiabatic quantum computers. A project to watch, for sure.
Re:QMASM: A Quantum Macro Assembler by krastanov on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:45PM (#13394976)
It is a common and significant misconception that D-Wave is an "adiabatic quantum computer". Adiabatic quantum computers for instance would be able to factor numbers in polynomial time (or more generally, adiabatic quantum computers have the full power of quantum computation, i.e. they efficiently solve problems in the BQP class). D-Wave, while being an interesting computing machine, is definitely not a general quantum computer (not even they claim that anymore). Moreover, classical computers have proven to be better at the optimization problems D-Wave was specifically designed for.