In shared memory mode, should the QVM still rewire qubits? about qvm HOT 2 OPEN

I wonder if this question should instead be: should the QVM respect certain PRAGMAs like PRESERVE_BLOCK? or otherwise should the QVM be configurable to preserve qubits.

@stylewarning thoughts?

from qvm.

This is really an issue with the idea of a persistent QVM. If a QVM persists, the interpretation of qubits shouldn't change from run to run. So the moral of this issue is correct. Shared memory mode sort of assumes that you're going to be repeatedly poking at memory, and you share the expectation as to where that memory will be.

We should incorporate this as a requirement for implementing persistent QVMs.

from qvm.