[RFC] Naming for functions that require codegen tools outside of TVM

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#1

@comaniac and I are working on generating code using codegen tools outside of TVM stack: https://github.com/apache/incubator-tvm/pull/4482. We want to have some comments about the name of the attribute that indicates a Relay function will use external codegen tools. This field will be used by the runtime to lookup a symbol for execution. Some possible names in discussion are: FuncName, ExportFuncName, ExtFuncName, ExportSymbol. Please share your idea:)

@tqchen @jroesch @haichen @yzhliu @masahi @liangfu @jonso

#2

Other than FuncName, I would prefer ExportSymbol

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#3

I would prefer ExternalSymbol as it follows the naming convention in c++ linker.

#4

ExternalSymbol sounds good to me, while just putting some other names in my head, ThirdPartyExecutor, ExtExecutor, BringYourOwnExecutor

#5

ExternalSymbol or ExternalFuncName sounds good to me!

#6

+1 for ExternalSymbol.

#7

+1 for ExternalSymbol .

#8

Looks ExternalSymbol is the winner. Thanks @haichen for proposing it. @tqchen any thought or comments?

#9

Seems we are converging. I don’t have strong opinions. Let us wait a bit to give everyone including those from a different timezone to share their thoughts, then we can conclude by summarizing the discussion.