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1000 single bit operations per FLOP

1000 single bit operations per FLOP

Posted Jun 25, 2008 0:06 UTC (Wed) by mikov (subscriber, #33179)
In reply to: 1000 single bit operations per FLOP by jzbiciak
Parent article: The Kernel Hacker's Bookshelf: Ultimate Physical Limits of Computation

Wow, thanks! I have nothing to say except to retract my idiotic suggestion of implementing the
adder with a truth table :-)

I have to agree with "nix" that this is very impressive. Your post deserves an article of its
own. 


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