> lack of hardware support That seems fixable. Don't people make chips that do what you want a lot of? A chip with an array of 8-bit posit PUs could process a

> lack of hardware support That seems fixable. Don't people make chips that do what you want a lot of? A chip with an array of 8-bit posit PUs could process a hell of a lot in parallel, subject only to getting the arguments and results to useful places.