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Add loads/stores of BFloat16

Open gquintin opened this issue 4 years ago • 0 comments

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 avatar Aug 30 '19 22:08 gquintin