sfloat24 Floating Point DataType - Request for Comments

[Bill Buckels]

On Thursday, 3 April 2014 at 20:33:51 UTC, anonymous wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 April 2014 at 20:13:35 UTC, Bill Buckels wrote:
>> The sfloat24 data type is half way between a float and a 
>> double in storage size.
>
> Wait. 24 bits would be halfway between half (16 bits) and single
> precision (32 b its).

Could save on byte aligned storage depending on implementation. 
If stored in 3 bytes.

Floats overflow even doing a hue calculation. sfloat24 is very 
precise.

Again depending on implementation, could be faster than doubles. 
But the precision seems to be the advantage.

Give the papers a read.

Does anyone do embedded systems or high precision engineering in 
D?

Bill