// destroy an instance of this class.
  virtual void Release() = 0;

  // Creates an operation builder and ties it to this context.
  // The returned object can be used for setting operation's attributes,
  // adding inputs and finally executing (immediately or lazily as in tracing)
  // it in this context.
  virtual AbstractOperation* CreateOperation() = 0;

  // Registers a function with this context, after this the function is

// Return an identity op.
TFE_Op* IdentityOp(TFE_Context* ctx, TFE_TensorHandle* a);

// Return a shape op fetching the shape of `a`.
TFE_Op* ShapeOp(TFE_Context* ctx, TFE_TensorHandle* a);

// Return an allreduce op adding up input tensor `in` from `group_size` workers.
TFE_Op* AllReduceOp(TFE_Context* ctx, TFE_TensorHandle* in, int group_size);

// Return a SendOp op `op_name` with send input tensor `in` and attributes

// for `Env::Default()` altogether, but that's a different project, not in
// scope for now. I'm just mentioning this here as that transition will mean
// removal of the registration part from `Env` and adding it here instead: we
// will need tables to hold for each scheme the function tables that implement
// the needed functionality instead of the current `FileSystemRegistry` code in
// `core/platform/env.cc`.