Roadmap of SWIG interface

[tngan]

As discussed @peterbraden in another issue, here a new thread is used to discuss the SWIG interface. Just move the discussion of SWIG interface here, separating from another thread.

[RnbWd]

I find this project really interesting...

what if subsets of tensorflow were initially rewritten in native javascript - for a proof of concept?

I'm not sure what the performance differences would be - or level of difficultly - writing the algorithms in javascript vs SWIG interface. I assume some % of tensorflow can be written in javascript - but I haven't gone through the all source code understand what's happening.

I do believe tensorfow is one of the most significant libraries published to date - so bridging the gap w/ JS would probably increase it's utility and usage by an order of magnitude or more. It only needs to be performant enough to be useable - and I'm certain a node-tensorflow has the potential to be far more performant than the python code.