[PyTorch] Remove fast param getter from modules #1291
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#1191 added a fast accessor for params to work around CPU overheads from how PyTorch modules store params. This saves ~1 us per forward pass (out of a total ~100 us) in small benchmarks with the linear layer. However, we have experienced some problems with FSDP since it internally replaces the params with a flattened param and turns the original params into a plain tensor. The fast accessor was very hacky, and this edge case makes me think it's not worth the performance benefit.
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