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Bracket for ArrayFire usage. Wrap your main (or top-level IO action) with this to ensure the safe-finalizer shutdown flag is set before GHC's finalizer thread runs, preventing a "double free or corruption" abort when GC-managed array handles outlive ArrayFire's C++ allocator teardown.

main :: IO ()
main = withArrayFire $ do
  ...

Retrieve info from ArrayFire API

ArrayFire v3.6.4 (OpenCL, 64-bit Mac OSX, build 1b8030c5)
[0] APPLE: AMD Radeon Pro 555X Compute Engine, 4096 MB
-1- APPLE: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630, 1536 MB

Calls af_init C function from ArrayFire API

>>> afInit
()

Retrieves ArrayFire device information as String, same as info.

>>> getInfoString
"ArrayFire v3.6.4 (OpenCL, 64-bit Mac OSX, build 1b8030c5)\n[0] APPLE: AMD Radeon Pro 555X Compute Engine, 4096 MB\n-1- APPLE: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630, 1536 MB\n"

Retrieves count of devices

>>> getDeviceCount
2

Sets a device by Int

>>> setDevice 0
()

Retrieves device identifier

>>> getDevice
0

Runs the device garbage collector, freeing any cached memory buffers.