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Moving to Swift #18

Open mortendahl opened 4 years ago

mortendahl commented 4 years ago

Explore to what extent it makes sense to move (parts of) the TFE codebase Swift, and if so, outline what this would look like.

Pros:

strong typing system
better integration of custom kernels/MLIR

Cons:

performance seems to be worse in S4TF (at the current stage): https://github.com/tensorflow/swift-apis/issues/630

Questions:

is S4TF suitable for (expressing) distributed computations?
how would S4TF fit together with TFE compiler and runtime?
how easy is it to use Swift code from Python, or would it require users moving to Swift as well?