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and subject line Re: ITP: half -- C++ library for half precision floating point
arithmetics
has caused the Debian Bug report #1049960,
regarding ITP: half -- C++ library for half precision floating point arithmetics
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christian Kastner <c...@debian.org>
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* Package name : half
Version : 2.2.0
Upstream Author : Christian Rau
* URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/half/
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: C++
Description : C++ library for half precision floating point arithmetics
This is a C++ header-only library to provide an IEEE-754 conformant
half-precision floating point type along with corresponding arithmetic
operators, type conversions and common mathematical functions. It aims
for both efficiency and ease of use, trying to accurately mimic the
behaviour of the builtin floating point types at the best performance
possible. It automatically uses and provides C++11 features when
possible, but stays completely C++98-compatible when neccessary.
This is needed by MIOpen, which is also in the process of being
packaged.
This will be maintained by the Debian ROCm Team.
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The half 2.2.0-1 package has been uploaded to unstable, so I believe
this bug can be considered closed. I must admit, I still don't know why
AMD chose this particular library, but they cared enough that they
forked it just to package it themselves for the various distributions
that they support [1]. Aside from MIOpen, I believe half is also used by
MIVisionX, AMDMIGraphX, rpp, rocAL, and HIP-CPU. Ultimately, I think
it's probably less work to maintain this package than it is to fight
upstream to pick a different half library.
For my personal perspective, I was quite surprised during my grad school
years (circa 2015) that I had to install the OpenEXR / ILM math
libraries just to get a definition of a half float. I do appreciate that
libhalf-dev does only one thing.
Sincerely,
Cory Bloor
[1]: https://github.com/ROCm/half
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