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Has RSA been destroyed by a quantum computer???

Security Cryptography Whatever

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How Does a Quantum Computer Make Schnorr's Factoring Go Faster?

Schnorr's paper uses the hard problem that we use for post quantum cryptography. So I would a quantum computer make Schnorr's factoring an algorithm go any faster, even if it did work better. It seems like the stretch claim I would make here where somebody's gonna tell me I'm just completely off is that if that paper was true, it would also be saying something pretty important about post quantum cryptographic systems.

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