For noiseless QVMs don't measure all qubits #1252
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Description
QuantumComputer.run_and_measure
insertsMEASURE
instructions for all qubits into the program before it is sent for execution by the QPU or QVM. When the target is the QVM this may lead to memory exhaustion: the QVM allocates enough memory to track a wavefunction for the number of qubits used in the program. For a larger number of qubits (around 32), one will use over 1GB of memory which causes the QVM to (rather ungraciously) crash. This PR fixes that by measuring only the qubits used in the program if and only if the target is the QVM and there is no associated noise model.Checklist
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