  Correcting errors is a vital but expensive component of fault tolerant
quantum computation. Standard fault tolerant protocol assumes the
implementation of error correction, via syndrome measurements and possible
recovery operations, after every quantum gate. In fact, this is not necessary.
Here we demonstrate that error correction should be applied more sparingly. We
simulate encoded single-qubit rotations within the [[7,1,3]] code and show via
fidelity measures that applying error correction after every gate is not
desirable.
