Freezing Stale Attributes of the IR at Different Stage of the Flow

[Victor-Jung]

In Deeploy, we use the following IRs:

• In the Frontend:
  • The GS Graph
  • The NetworkContext
• In the Midend:
  • The GS Graph
  • The NetworkContext
• In the Backend:
  • The NetworkContext
  • The ExecutionBlock and CodeTransformer of each Layer from the LayerBinding

It seems to me that the location of the source of truth is not always very clear, especially in the Backend. For instance, the ONNXLayer from the layerBinding carries the gs.Node, the NodeParser (through the mapper), the NodeTemplate (through the binder), the CodeTransformation, and the ExecutionBlock.

Would it be possible to "freeze" some attributes at some stages of the flow, forbidding or warning a user to modify or use them?