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The high-performance and featureful Quil simulator.
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allow recycling qubits & non-eager entanglement #144

Open stylewarning opened 5 years ago

stylewarning commented 5 years ago

Some quantum algorithms have ancillas that are temporary and get discarded. The QVM used to support this many moons ago, but nobody used it and it caused different performance degradation symptoms. It was also complicated.

Maybe it's time to revisit introducing it as an option back.