Re: ENH: Add float16, npy_half, specific routines to the NumPy C-API as NpyHalf*
Francesc Alted via NumPy-Discussion <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Nov 2025 12:24:15 +0100
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On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM Ilhan Polat via NumPy-Discussion < [email protected]> wrote: > Whatever the decision would be, could we at least try to use the bit width > in the name such as float16 as much as possible? Half means nothing and > gives different platforms different ideas which would be very annoying > after a decade, every platform went their own way. Also syntactically > double -> float -> half (not to mention the "long" situation) is not > consistent either. There is still no guarantee obviously (say complex256 > support on windows) but at least we eliminate the obvious ones. > +1 -- Francesc Alted _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/numpy-discussion.python.org Member address: [email protected]