Pattern Recognition

How fast is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_recognition compared to usual transistor CPU? Can we use it to speed-up computations?

I have repeated problem with Wikipedia, because it fails to provide time scale for interaction description. Of course physical processes timing depends on many factors, but they could at least define some standard environment.

>>15
And λ too!

>>1
You are like asking, "Are chemical interactions/reactions faster than electronic currents that are buffered by an transistor in a massive array to determine voltage levels at a fixed rate?" Well, if you account that these CPUs depend on these chemical[/physical] interactions, and that CPUs most be fixed with a clock to determine if a transistor was initiated, It should be blatant that chemical interactions, like temperature, occur at more frequent rates than CPUs cycles. If the questions was that if we could ever achieve processing rates as fast as molecular reactions, then we need some other force that we can manipulate than electrons in semiconductors, and that we can impede, to be able to physically interact with an interface we can physically use for its design.

tl;dr ver: Not on this universe. Unless we learn of a way manipulate nuclear force, or some other force we have not found, that can interact with our "computers"

Also, this is a /tech/ question, not /prog/. The closes thing we have on something like that is Smart materials:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_material
[I'd call it Memory materials]