Easy builder for building IR in C++

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I will just leave these here:

Evolving Builder APIs based on lessons learned from EDSC

Authors: @ftynse, @nicolasvasilache Reading time: ~20 minutes Ever since the initial introduction, the use of EDSC (Embedded Domain-Specific Constructs) as IR creation API has been contentious in core MLIR. This essay/proposal attempts to reconsider the reasons for creating EDSC and the issues that arise from their existence in order to find a way to reconcile the infrastructural efforts in a common path forward. Note that EDSC precede several major improvements in the MLIR APIs and some of th…

[RFC] DSL-style / dialect-specific builders

DSL-style builders Context: Evolving Builder APIs based on lessons learned from EDSC Introduction This document proposes an ODS-backed approach to defining IR-building APIs, complementary to OpBuilder. It intends to replace EDSC’s intrinsics mechanism with auto-generated APIs that rely on the main Builder infrastructure in a transparent way. Proposal Dialect-specific builder classes The main concept of this proposal is a dialect-specific builder class. This class caches OpBuilder and Locat…

If we are finally ready for these after >4 years, I’m open for discussion.