class GradientTape {
 public:
  // If `persistent` is true, GradientTape will not eagerly delete backward
  // functions (and hence the tensors they keep alive). Instead, everything
  // is deleted in ~GradientTape. Persistent GradientTapes are useful when
  // users want to compute multiple gradients over the same tape.
  explicit GradientTape(bool persistent) : persistent_(persistent) {}

// gradients.
class Tape : protected eager::GradientTape<AbstractTensorHandle,
                                           GradientFunction, TapeTensor> {
 public:
  using GradientTape<AbstractTensorHandle, GradientFunction,
                     TapeTensor>::GradientTape;
  // Returns whether the tape is persistent, i.e., whether the tape will hold