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by yellowcake0 1045 days ago
> from months to a few weeks

So a 4x speedup? A completely irrelevant performance improvement for a "quantum computer".

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Both values refer to the quantum computer. A classical simulation would be many orders of magnitude faster.
Well if you ran that on a normal processor it would take you less than 10s and that's including the 9s it takes for python to load and numpy to import.