[meanderer]

Quantum computers could work in very different ways, though.

[soberhoff]

So do cars. Neither have any bearing on TAOCP.

[harry8]

Cars don't do much in the way of general purpose data transforms for you.

In my day we had computational complexity, and we LiKED it! So say all of us who claim Knuth as our homeboy if quantum computers ever work better switched on than off...

[lokedhs]

> Cars don't do much in the way of general purpose data transforms for you.

And neither does quantum computers.