On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Graydon Hoare <[email protected]> wrote:
>> (and absent people saying they need it, it isn't like it would be the
>> sort of thing that would be hard to add to a later version of the
>> language)
>
> No, it's conceivable, just .. sigh. I would not want to go there. I
> guess it makes sense on pre-SSE x86 targets also, however long those
> live on.
>

doomlord in irc said f16 (llvm's `half` type) would be very useful for
graphics. LLVM already exposes fp128 for f128, so it /shouldn't/ be
that difficult to support. Going farther into the land of f256 would
be quite difficult though.
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