qprof: a gprof-inspired quantum profiler

Abstract

We introduce qprof, a new and extensible quantum program profiler able to generate profiling reports of various quantum circuits. We describe the internal structure and working of qprof and provide three practical examples on practical quantum circuits with increasing complexity. This tool will allow researchers to visualise their quantum implementation in a different way and reliably localise the bottlenecks for efficient code optimisation.

Adrien Suau
Adrien Suau
Senior Open-Source Software Engineer

Open-source advocate working on the quantum error-correction software stack.