Implementing Half Floats in D

[SomeDude]

On Thursday, 31 January 2013 at 15:38:04 UTC, Don wrote:
> The current approach of putting everything directly into a 
> single level in std doesn't scale very far -- it will look very 
> clumsy once it gets more than (say) three times larger. This 
> argues for SmallPhobos.
>
> But if it doesn't get to be at least ten times larger, some of 
> this niche stuff shouldn't be in there, they are functions from 
> LargePhobos. If we go with SmallPhobos then we need to move the 
> niche stuff somewhere else.

I am all for a "small" Phobos. And specialized libraries in 
Deimos, which should get the same level of attention as Phobos.