2 softfloat and softposit in Python
3 * support for softposit posit8, quire8, posit16, and quire16
4 * no softfloat support yet, still WIP
8 >>> from sfpy import Posit16, Quire16
9 >>> Posit16(1.3) + Posit16(1.4)
13 Posit16(1.7881393432617188e-07)
16 Posit16(4.76837158203125e-07)
18 >>> q.fdp_add(Posit16(11.0), Posit16(2.0))
27 For a basic performance test of the API, try: `python timing.py`
30 The cython module can be built in place in the usual way:
31 `python setup.py build_ext --inplace`
32 This requires the submodules to be checked out, and the static library `SoftPosit/build/Linux-x86_64-GCC/softposit.a` to be built. Note that in order for cython to be able to build the shared object for the module, the static library must be compiled with -fPIC, which currently requires modifying the appropriate Makefile manually.
34 The package can also be installed to a local Python distribution with pip, i.e. `pip install .` using the appropriate pip.