samskalicky opened a new pull request #18904: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/18904
## Description ## HUGE WIP!!!!!!!!! I will add RFC tag after a little more work to flush this idea out and start a discussion. I would like to propose another feature in MXNet Extensions for "_external ops_". Currently we have the following categories of operators in MXNet: - **builtin/backend operators** are those defined in the src/operator directory and are compiled into libmxnet.so - **Python custom operators** are custom operators written in Python by users (not part of MXNet source code) - **C++ custom operators** are custom operators written in C++ by users (not part of MXNet source code) that use the MXNet Extensions (lib_api.h) _External operators_ will be builtin/backend operators but not compiled into libmxnet.so. Instead, they will be compiled into a separate shared object and dynamically loaded at runtime similar to C++ custom operators. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
