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

[John Lato]

Did you mean unboxed vectors?  Storable vectors will store an Int16 in 16
bits, so that's another approach.


On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>wrote:

> Am 01.03.2014 07:09, schrieb KC:
>>
>>  Can Haskell use short floats; i.e. 16 bit floats to save space?
>>>
>>
> 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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