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Add loads/stores of BFloat16 #17

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gquintin opened this issue Aug 30, 2019 · 0 comments

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gquintin commented Aug 30, 2019

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.

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