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

moving to Haskell-Cafe ... Am 01.03.2014 07:09, schrieb KC:

Can Haskell use short floats; i.e. 16 bit floats to save space?

You could wrap an Int16 in a newtype and implement your own floating point arithmetic with some bit manipulation and make that instances of Num, Fractional or numeric-prelude or yap classes.