This attributes is intended cover the current set of use cases that abuse
DenseElementsAttr, e.g. when the data is large. Using resources for large
data is one of the major reasons why they were added; e.g. they can be
deallocated mid-compilation, they support a wide variety of data origins
(e.g, heap allocated, mmap'd, etc.), they can support mutation, etc.
I considered at length not having a builtin variant of this, and instead
having multiple versions of this attribute for dialects that are interested,
but they all boiled down to the exact same attribute definition. Given the
generality of this attribute, it feels more aligned to keep it next to DenseArrayAttr
(given that DenseArrayAttr covers the "small" case, and DenseResourcesElementsAttr
covers the "large" case). The underlying infra used to build this attribute is
general, and having a builtin attribute doesn't preclude users from defining
their own when it makes sense (they can even share a blob manager with the
builtin dialect to avoid data duplication).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130022
The DialectResourceBlobManager class provides functionality for managing resource blobs
in a generic, dialect-agnostic fashion. In addition to this class, a dialect interface and custom
resource handle are provided to simplify referencing and interacting with the manager. These
classes intend to simplify the work required for dialects that want to manage resource blobs
during compilation, such as for large elements attrs. The old manager for the resource example
in the test dialect has been updated to use this, which provides and cleaner and more consistent API.
This commit also adds new HeapAsmResourceBlob and ImmortalAsmResourceBlob to simplify
creating resource blobs in common scenarios.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130021
