This deletes most of the dead Tensor code paths, including the TensorMethods cwrap and generic/Tensor.cpp.
This also moves the THNN.cwrap/.cpp generation to generate_code which can use ninja if installed.
* Improve Variable interface
* Address comments from @apaszke and @colesbury
* string ::operator= is not noexcept
* Remove ir.h from tracer_state.h to improve build times
* Make Variable a struct and pack SavedVariable fields
* Implement as_variable_ref
* grad_fn_ptr() -> grad_fn_unsafe()
* Reduce hackiness of set_type hack
* Include variable.h and edge.h in tracer_state.h because it uses them
* class Variable -> struct Variable because Windows cant even
* Make Variable::output_nr uint32_t instead of int
* Add comment about tracing state
* Replaced more static_cast<Variable&> and improve docs
* Remove SavedVariable destructor and construct members in init list
* Clarify docs for Variable
* Variable::set_version -> set_version_counter
This better maintains backwards compatibility when Tensors and Variables
are merged. For example:
>>> loss = var.sum().data[0]
Currently, `var.sum().data` is 1-dim so indexing. Once scalars are
enabled and Variable and Tensor are merged it will be zero-dim. This
change allows that expression to continue working (with a warning). In
the future, the canonical way to compute that expression will be:
>>> loss = float(var.sum())
Or an equivalent alternative:
>>> loss = var.sum().item()
Also fixes a few error cases.
The Tensor and Variable classes are being merged.
autograd.Function.forward is now called on Variables, but with "no-grad"
mode (torch.no_grad()) enabled.
One benefit is that we no longer have to explicitly track shared
storages.
1) Have 0-dim byte tensors behave like Py_TRUE, Py_FALSE
1) Py_TRUE now properly returns a copy from getitem
3) setitem now properly shapes the LHS consistent with the RHS (this doesn't really matter outside of error messages having the proper shape)
4) setitem supports numpy-style copy_to broadcasting (cuts off prefix 1s from src), so e.g. you can setitem (1,1,2,3) to (2,3) even though
that doesn't follow the normal inplace broadcasting rules.
Implements basic and advanced indexing using ATen tensors/variables.
Basic indexing is translated at the Python-binding level
(python_variable_indexing.cpp) to slice/squeeze/unsqueeze/select calls.
Advanced indexing is implemented in ATen in terms of take() and put()
calls.
