单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be more optimistic about optical computing if which of the following were true?

• (A) Digital partitioning algorithms could be applied to electronic, and not just optical circuits.
• (B) The speed of photons could be shown to be significantly greater than that of electrons.
• (C) The precision level in basic operations can be substantially increased without great expense.
• (D) The accuracy of electronic circuits used to preprocess input data and post- process data could be greatly increased.
• (E) The microchips optical computer systems were shown to require an increasing density of interconnections.