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Re:DNA seen through the eyes of a coder by lou1306 on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @08:42AM (#29649151)
Indeed asynchronous digital systems, such as asynchonous CPUs or "wavefront arrays" [1], have been experimented with in the past. Looks like they never picked up steam, though.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_circuit#Asynchron...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systolic_array

Re:DNA seen through the eyes of a coder by not2b on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:11PM (#29657138)
Asynchronous circuits are very hard to design and prove correct unless they are very small, though there are abstractions that work for specific cases. Debugging race conditions and metastability problems, or proving that they can't happen, is no fun. But there's massive support for synchronous logic design, it is a well-understood discipline.