[IgorCarron]

Let me make a simple observation here:

In the Paper of Catherine McGeoch and her co-author Cong Wang, they write:

"...As a case in point, our second project compares the V5 hardware chip used in our first study to a V6 chip that became operational after the study was completed. V6 is three to five times faster than V5, and can solve problems as large as n = 502...."

In other words, during the time it took to set up the algorithm and perform the study, Moore's law had been able to enable a classical approach to go five times faster. I am a big supporter of anything that does quantum computing but one should never lose sight of Moore's law.

http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2013/05/randomized-thoughts...