What is codegen?

In many projects, I can find some submodules like codegen. I check the module's CMakeLists and find it generates some header files or source files. So What is the purpose of codegen？

Example:

1. https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/c371542efc31b1abfe6f388042aa3ab0cef935f2/torch/csrc/jit/tensorexpr/codegen.h

2. https://github.com/alibaba/MNN/tree/master/codegen

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66864270/what-is-codegen March 30, 2021 at 11:06AM