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>Additionally, modern processors all have at minimum 64 bit buses, so exposing anything other than 64 bit scalar types makes no sense. Yeah but you have a 32 b
by imtringued 3y ago
>Additionally, modern processors all have at minimum 64 bit buses, so exposing anything other than 64 bit scalar types makes no sense.
Yeah but you have a 32 bit data type and a packed 32 bit array, so why not have the same for 16 bit? Not just that, there are also SIMD operations that work better with 16 bit numbers.