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Building a Quantum Compiler
A small optimizing compiler for quantum circuits, built from the IR up: OpenQASM 3 in, optimized QIR out, executed on CUDA-Q, and measured against the Qiskit and pytket transpilers.
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№14
The scoreboard: qcc against Qiskit, pytket, and Q#
compilers · quantum · qir
Aug 21, 2026
8 min
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№13
Four rewrites and a lesson about ordering
compilers · quantum · optimization
Aug 20, 2026
4 min
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№12
How to trust a compiler you just wrote
compilers · quantum · testing
Aug 19, 2026
4 min
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№11
Qubits are values, not registers
compilers · quantum · mlir
Aug 18, 2026
5 min
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