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Change casting rules for StateMP to avoid copy in Lightning #5995
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Context:
The changes made in #5547 led to a performance regression in Lightning because a superfluous state vector copy is made when adding
0.j
, which was introduced to cast the output to complex.Description of the Change:
Use
qml.math.cast
instead.Benefits:
Avoid unnecessary sum of
0.j
Possible Drawbacks:
Related GitHub Issues:
[sc-65127]