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#ifndef __ARM_COMPUTE_IFUNCTION_H__
#define __ARM_COMPUTE_IFUNCTION_H__

namespace arm_compute
{
/** Base class for all functions */
class IFunction
{
public:
    /** Destructor */
    virtual ~IFunction() = default;
    /** Run the kernels contained in the function
     *
     * For NEON kernels:
     * - Multi-threading is used for the kernels which are parallelisable.
     * - By default std::thread::hardware_concurrency() threads are used.
     *
     * @note @ref CPPScheduler::set_num_threads() can be used to manually set the number of threads
     *
     * For OpenCL kernels:
     * - All the kernels are enqueued on the queue associated with CLScheduler.
     * - The queue is then flushed.
     *
     * @note The function will not block until the kernels are executed. It is the user's responsibility to wait.
     * @note Will call prepare() on first run if hasn't been done
     */
    virtual void run() = 0;
    /** Prepare the function for executing
     *
     * Any one off pre-processing step required by the function is handled here
     *
     * @note Prepare stage might not need all the function's buffers' backing memory to be available in order to execute
     */
    virtual void prepare()
    {
    }
};
}
#endif /*__ARM_COMPUTE_IFUNCTION_H__ */