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+// An interface allowing to compute ggml_cgraph with Metal
+//
+// This is a fully functional interface that extends ggml with GPU support for Apple devices.
+// A similar interface can be created for other GPU backends (e.g. Vulkan, CUDA, OpenCL, etc.)
+//
+// How it works?
+//
+// As long as your program can create and evaluate a ggml_cgraph on the CPU, you can use this
+// interface to evaluate the same graph on the GPU. Instead of using ggml_graph_compute(), you
+// use ggml_metal_graph_compute() (or ggml_vulkan_graph_compute(), etc.)
+//
+// You only need to make sure that all memory buffers that you used during the graph creation
+// are mapped to the device memory with the ggml_metal_add_buffer() function. This mapping is
+// used during the graph evaluation to determine the arguments of the compute kernels.
+//
+// Synchronization between device and host memory (for example for input and output tensors)
+// is done with the ggml_metal_set_tensor() and ggml_metal_get_tensor() functions.
+//
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <stddef.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+
+// max memory buffers that can be mapped to the device
+#define GGML_METAL_MAX_BUFFERS 16
+
+struct ggml_tensor;
+struct ggml_cgraph;
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+struct ggml_metal_context;
+
+struct ggml_metal_context * ggml_metal_init(void);
+void ggml_metal_free(struct ggml_metal_context * ctx);
+
+// creates a mapping between a host memory buffer and a device memory buffer
+// - make sure to map all buffers used in the graph before calling ggml_metal_graph_compute
+// - the mapping is used during computation to determine the arguments of the compute kernels
+// - you don't need to keep the host memory buffer allocated as it is never accessed by Metal
+//
+bool ggml_metal_add_buffer(
+        struct ggml_metal_context * ctx,
+                       const char * name,
+                             void * data,
+                           size_t   size);
+
+// set data from host memory into the device
+void ggml_metal_set_tensor(struct ggml_metal_context * ctx, struct ggml_tensor * t);
+
+// get data from the device into host memory
+void ggml_metal_get_tensor(struct ggml_metal_context * ctx, struct ggml_tensor * t);
+
+// same as ggml_graph_compute but uses Metal
+void ggml_metal_graph_compute(struct ggml_metal_context * ctx, struct ggml_cgraph * gf);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+