标题： 回到比特：将香农的通信性能框架扩展到计算 显示英文标题

标题： Back to Bits: Extending Shannon's communication performance framework to computing

摘要： 这项工作提出了一种基于信息论的新型计算性能单元。 现代计算系统日益多样化，支持低精度格式、硬件专用化以及模拟、量子和可逆逻辑等新兴范式。 传统的指标如浮点运算（flops）已不再能准确捕捉这种复杂性。 我们将计算视为通过信道进行的信息转换，并根据系统的输入和输出之间的互信息来定义性能。 这种方法不仅衡量处理的数据量，还衡量通过计算编码、操作和保留的有意义信息量。 我们的框架为评估性能提供了一个有原则的、与实现无关的基础。 显示英文摘要

摘要： This work proposes a novel computing performance unit grounded in information theory. Modern computing systems are increasingly diverse, supporting low-precision formats, hardware specialization, and emerging paradigms such as analog, quantum, and reversible logic. Traditional metrics like floating-point operations (flops) no longer accurately capture this complexity. We frame computing as the transformation of information through a channel and define performance in terms of the mutual information between a system's inputs and outputs. This approach measures not just the quantity of data processed, but the amount of meaningful information encoded, manipulated, and retained through computation. Our framework provides a principled, implementation-agnostic foundation for evaluating performance.