Added xlabuilder.Shape.Memory and xlabuilder.NewArrayLiteralFromAny.

docs/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 * Store client link with Buffer. Added `Buffer.Client` method.
 * Added `Buffer.Device` and `Client.NumForDevice`.
 * Properly setting client options for `pjrt.NewClient`. Added test for reading/writing `C.PJRT_NamedValues`.
+* Added `xlabuilder.Shape.Memory` and `xlabuilder.NewArrayLiteralFromAny`.
 
 # v0.1.2 SuppressAbseilLoggingHack
 

xlabuilder/literal.go

@@ -95,6 +95,41 @@ func NewScalarLiteralFromAny(value any) *Literal {
 	return l
 }
 
+// NewArrayLiteralFromAny creates a scalar Literal with the given dynamically typed flat values and its underlying dimensions.
+// If dimensions is omitted, it's assumed to be a 1D tensor with dimension matching the length of flat.
+// It uses reflection to inspect the type.
+func NewArrayLiteralFromAny(flatAny any, dimensions ...int) *Literal {
+	flatV := reflect.ValueOf(flatAny)
+	if flatV.Kind() != reflect.Slice {
+		exceptions.Panicf("NewArrayLiteralFromAny expects a slice, got %T instead", flatAny)
+	}
+	dtype := dtypes.FromGoType(flatV.Type().Elem())
+	if dtype == dtypes.InvalidDType {
+		exceptions.Panicf("NewArrayLiteralFromAny expects a slice of valid DTypes, got %T instead", flatAny)
+	}
+	if len(dimensions) == 0 {
+		dimensions = []int{flatV.Len()}
+	}
+	shape := MakeShape(dtype, dimensions...)
+	if shape.Size() != flatV.Len() {
+		exceptions.Panicf("NewArrayLiteralFromAny got a slice of length %d, but the shape %s given has %d elements",
+			flatV.Len(), shape, shape.Size())
+	}
+
+	// Copy data as bytes -- to avoid using complex reflected slices.
+	flatPtr := flatV.Index(0).Addr().UnsafePointer()
+	var pinner runtime.Pinner
+	pinner.Pin(flatPtr)
+	defer pinner.Unpin()
+	flatData := unsafe.Slice((*byte)(flatPtr), shape.Memory())
+
+	l := NewLiteralFromShape(shape)
+	lData := unsafe.Slice((*byte)(unsafe.Pointer(l.cLiteral.data)), shape.Memory())
+
+	copy(lData, flatData)
+	return l
+}
+
 // newLiteral creates the literal and registers the finalizer.
 func newLiteral(cLiteral *C.Literal, shape Shape) *Literal {
 	l := &Literal{cLiteral: cLiteral, shape: shape}

xlabuilder/literal_test.go

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ func TestLiterals(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NotPanics(t, func() { _ = NewScalarLiteral[complex128](complex(1.0, 0.0)) })
 	require.NotPanics(t, func() { NewScalarLiteral[int8](0).Destroy() })
 	require.NotPanics(t, func() { NewArrayLiteral([]float32{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}, 2, 3).Destroy() })
+	require.NotPanics(t, func() { NewArrayLiteralFromAny([]float64{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}, 2, 3).Destroy() })
 
 	// Check that various literals get correcly interpreted in PRJT.
 	client := getPJRTClient(t)
@@ -34,4 +35,11 @@ func TestLiterals(t *testing.T) {
 	output = capture(Constant(builder, NewScalarLiteralFromAny(float16.Fromfloat32(15e-3)))).Test(t)
 	exec = compile(t, client, capture(builder.Build(output)).Test(t))
 	require.Equal(t, float16.Fromfloat32(15e-3), execScalarOutput[float16.Float16](t, client, exec))
+
+	builder = New(t.Name())
+	output = capture(Constant(builder, NewArrayLiteralFromAny([]float64{1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13}, 3, 2))).Test(t)
+	exec = compile(t, client, capture(builder.Build(output)).Test(t))
+	gotFlat, gotDims := execArrayOutput[float64](t, client, exec)
+	require.Equal(t, []int{3, 2}, gotDims)
+	require.Equal(t, []float64{1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13}, gotFlat)
 }

xlabuilder/shape.go

@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ func (s Shape) Size() int {
 	return size
 }
 
+// Memory returns the memory used to store an array of the given shape, the same as the size in bytes.
+// Careful, so far all types in Go and on device seem to use the same sizes, but future type this is not guaranteed.
+func (s Shape) Memory() uintptr {
+	return s.DType.Memory() * uintptr(s.Size())
+}
+
 // Clone makes a deep copy (including dimensions and tuples) of the given shape.
 func (s Shape) Clone() (newS Shape) {
 	newS.DType = s.DType