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Add loads/stores of BFloat16 #17

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gquintin opened this issue Aug 30, 2019 · 0 comments
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Add loads/stores of BFloat16 #17

gquintin opened this issue Aug 30, 2019 · 0 comments
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BFloat16 are truncated standard float32, therefore

  • loads involves unpacks and
  • stores involves unzip

This is OK for all supported architectures.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bfloat16_floating-point_format.
@gquintin gquintin added the enhancement New feature or request label Sep 18, 2019
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