On Jan 9, 2008 8:03 AM, Charles R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 8, 2008 1:58 PM, Bill Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you're really going to try to do it, Charles, there's an > > implementation of float16 in the OpenEXR toolkit. > > http://www.openexr.com/ > > > > Or more precisely it's in the files in the Half/ directory of this: > > http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/openexr/ilmbase-1.0.1.tar.gz > > > > I don't know if it's IEEE conformant or not (especially w.r.t. NaN's > > and such) but it should be a good start. The code seems to be well > > documented. > > The license looks good, essentially BSD. The code is all C++, which is the > obvious way to go for this sort of thing, and I would like to stick with it, > but that could lead to build/compatibility problems. I think NumPy itself > should really be in C++. Maybe scons can help with the build.
Yeh, I was just thinking you'd rip out and C-ify the main algorithms rather than trying to wrap it as-is. --bb _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion