Brad Chamberlain

Thanks for these updates, Paul!

Hi Damian — Thanks for capturing this request as an issue. With respect to your questions: > do I need to better define the concept of data-profile guided optimization Nope,...

> once I figure out how to put an ATO link in these posts. When you have an example on the ATO site that behaves as you like, go to...

Noting that this came up on Discord this week as being of interest to the team developing ChAI: https://discord.com/channels/1301640932709629963/1347356485176266813/1347356485176266813

The use case was trying to ingest a (binary?) data file on 16-bit floats for an AI workflow. > It wants to know my birthday. A bit scary. You can...

> Are people in ChAI trying to use BINARY16 or bfloat16 or some other format? Are they asking for arithmetic support or just the ability to store into and from...

> It seems like they are reading 16-bit integers rather than a binary format used to represent sign, exponent and significand. I don't believe that's the case. The reason for...

> On the other hand, if Chapel doesn't plan on adding real(16)s I don't think this is our mindset. I'd describe it as a feature that we've heard interest in,...

For anyone reading who feels inspired to give this a try, the approach I'd take if I were diving into it (as someone who doesn't work in the compiler very...

@Iainmon : After writing this up this morning, I spent the day wondering if there were surprises I wasn't anticipating, and had a few minutes at the end of the...