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5 changes: 0 additions & 5 deletions qiskit/circuit/quantumcircuit.py
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Expand Up @@ -3636,11 +3636,6 @@ def add_register(self, *regs: Register | int | Sequence[Bit]) -> None:
)

for register in regs:
if isinstance(register, Register) and any(
register.name == reg.name for reg in self.qregs + self.cregs
):
raise CircuitError(f'register name "{register.name}" already exists')

if isinstance(register, AncillaRegister):
for bit in register:
if bit not in self._qubit_indices:
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performance:
- |
Improves runtime performance of the :py:meth:`~.QuantumCircuit.add_register()` method on
:py:class:`~.QuantumCircuit`. Consequently, this change improves performance when
creating :py:class:`~.QuantumCircuit` as well. Generally, the time complexity of
checking register name presence was reduced to :math:`O(1)` from :math:`O(n)`. This was
achieved by removing redundant error checking.