The big boon of quantum computers is the quantum bits can have more than two states, that is, we move out of binary bits. That allows us to do some really amazing things. I'm not sure how much this would help DF, but porting it to this kind of architecture would take decades.
Nope, we're still in binary. And even if we moved out of binary, it would not be much better, because human logic is mostly binary. If you had a computer that ran in ternary or even decimal, it could add larger numbers slightly faster, nothing more.
I've looked at the programming tutorials of the D-Wave 1, and wow, that computer seems pretty useless. Programs only have a certain probability to output the correct solution, and 128 qubits are much too few, given the architecture. But not even all of these qubits can be used; about 20% of these will be faulty and can't be used. Then some qubits have to be linked to each other, giving you about 13 usable qubits. Finally, you can't run algorithmic programs using these qubits, so all a program can actually do is locally minimize a quadratic equation in 13 variables, getting the wrong solution half of the time. And all you need to do that is a 10-foot cube with insane energy consumption. That's even worse than the
first non-quantum computers. But the worst part: It doesn't even use quantum superposition, the stuff that's so great about quantum computer theory. In fact, the whole fucking system could probably be redesigned with simple
memristors instead of super-cooled niobium strips and still fit onto a microchip.
Hooray?
I'll rebuild one of those quantum computers in DF. Shouldn't be too hard. Really.