Comment by moffkalast

Well we're talking about a "native" implementation of both for comparison, right? Neural nets as they're being used are just being emulated by our turing-machine-like processors which makes them run like ass in practice. Something like an analog circuit that adds up voltages would be a native NN implementation and would surely vastly outperform any turing machine in wide highly parallel super highly memory driven tasks that are well suited for it, and either emulating the other is slow and bloated.