Dr. Juande Santander-Vela on Nostr: nprofile1q…564p8 it is always a trade off, as it happened when vector instructions ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqg96c53y7leqrkhe2wgw0km4dv3dryy3ghv47ujg6nrm8gzqnp77ss564p8 (nprofile…64p8) it is always a trade off, as it happened when vector instructions became mainstream. But there is indeed a danger that a focus on lower-precision support might end up being at the expense of higher precision FP operations, and making it more difficult to program those kind of software on general purpose processors.