On Jan 8, 2008 1:58 PM, Bill Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're really going to try to do it, Charles, there's an > implementation of float16 in the OpenEXR toolkit. > http://www.openexr.com/ > > Or more precisely it's in the files in the Half/ directory of this: > http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/openexr/ilmbase-1.0.1.tar.gz > > I don't know if it's IEEE conformant or not (especially w.r.t. NaN's > and such) but it should be a good start. The code seems to be well > documented.
The license looks good, essentially BSD. The code is all C++, which is the obvious way to go for this sort of thing, and I would like to stick with it, but that could lead to build/compatibility problems. I think NumPy itself should really be in C++. Maybe scons can help with the build. Chuck
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