The promise of reversible computing is that the amount of heat loss for reversible architectures would be minimal for significantly large numbers of transistors. Rather than creating entropy (and thus heat) through destructive operations, a reversible architecture conserves the energy by performing other operations that preserve the system state.
An erasure of information in a closed system is always accompanied by an increase in energy consumption.
So of course, first thing I wanted to know is how much entropy is lost in Uxn programs.
Uxn isn't a reversible environment, but it does make it easy to see what the information loss is due to a quirk of its design
Here's all the irretrievable data that is lost during each cycle of the "hello world" program.