Enable open registration of VariableType objects #8540
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We have 2 use cases where we want to experiment with new base ATen
tensor types:
It is possible to subclass TensorImpl to implement these but VariableType
does not work with them because it cannot find the equivalent variable type
in the registry.
This commit changes the way we implement type -> variable(type) lookup so that
torch::register_variable_type_for can be called on any at::Type.
Lookups are still done using arrays so there should be no perf impact from the change.