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If a Q# operation does not use qubits or quatum specific gates, will then the CLR generate bytecode that will be executed by the CPU and not the QPU(quantum processor)?

Mircea Suceveanu
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Yes, exactly. The Q# compiler translates the purely classical parts of your code into C#, which gets compiled (by the C# compiler) into standard .NET MSIL, JITed by the .NET Core runtime, and executed on a normal CPU.

Alan Geller
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  • Thank you for the answer! For a while I thought that any code I write in Q# uses in the back-end the quantum processor. But this is sneaky, yet clear what it's doing. Thank you again! – Mircea Suceveanu May 10 '19 at 05:32