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Do all processors supporting AVX2 support F16C?
Is it safe to assume that all machines on which AVX2 is supported also support F16C instructions? I haven't encountered any machine that doesn't do that, currently. Thanks
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Using Half Precision Floating Point on x86 CPUs
I intend to use half-precision floating-point in my code but I am not able to figure out how to declare them. For Example, I want to do something like the following-
fp16 a_fp16;
bfloat a_bfloat;
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Half-precision floating-point arithmetic on Intel chips
Is it possible to perform half-precision floating-point arithmetic on Intel chips?
I know how to load/store/convert half-precision floating-point numbers [1] but I do not know how to add/multiply ...
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How to enable __fp16 type on gcc for x86_64
The __fp16 floating point data-type is a well known extension to the C standard used notably on ARM processors. I would like to run the IEEE version of them on my x86_64 processor. While I know they ...
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