[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] Can Haskell use short floats; i.e. 16 bit floats to save space?

[Johan Tibell]

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> Am 01.03.2014 07:09, schrieb KC:
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>  Can Haskell use short floats; i.e. 16 bit floats to save space?
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GHC pads all basic data types to one word in its in-memory representation,
so no. It's possible that the boxed vectors in the "vector" package has a
more compact representation for arrays of Floats.

-- Johan
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