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by yvdriess 1596 days ago
Cool! I used CL for the same purposes in my PhD almost a decade ago. Interesting to see that others independently have been gravitating towards CL.

I had a top-level pattern language with a dataflow-like visual representation, using the LispWorks UI lib to make the editor. That pattern language compiled down to a Measurement Calculus representation (one-way QC, so not the usual circuit model) in s-expr form, which I could both execute with my QVM and do optimizing transformations on. I had a CL QVM was initially CL, but it was quickly replaced with a C + OpenMP version using the same s-expr input.
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reikonomusha 1596 days ago
Parallelization and SIMD are pretty easy for numerical code in CL now; I don't think this was the case 10 years ago. LPARALLEL is a nice small library for core-parallelism, and CL-MPI is good for MPI/cluster parallelism. This QVM [1], a pure/density-state simulator, can use either.

[1] MPI version: https://github.com/quil-lang/qvm/tree/master/dqvm

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