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

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 wrote:

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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