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by marcosdumay 4446 days ago
A computer is a much simpler abstraction and much less leaky than a circuit model.

Yes, in theory a computer could get a high level description of a circuit, and turn it into a very efficient hardware implementation. In practice our computers are not good enough - the same way they were not good enough for compiling high level languages at the 70's, and people wrote assembly by hand.