[Beignet] [PATCH 1/8] Backend: Add half float as a new type.

[He Junyan]

Thanks for your information.
I will do some research for it.


On 2015年05月22日 05:51, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 1:25 AM,  <junyan.he at inbox.com> wrote:
>> From: Junyan He <junyan.he at linux.intel.com>
>>
>> Because the CPU of X86 does not support half float
>> instructions, there is no support for half float operations.
>> So we introduce the half class to handle the operations for
>> half float using llvm's APFloat utility.
> Ivybridge and newer have the F16C instruction set
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F16C) which offers instructions to
> convert half-precision <-> single-precision floats.
>
> I don't know if it's valuable to use it, but it's there.
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