softfloat and softposit in Python
* support for softposit posit8, quire8, posit16, and quire16
* no softfloat support yet, still WIP
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## Demo
```
->>> from posit import Posit16, Quire16
+>>> from sfpy import Posit16, Quire16
>>> Posit16(1.3) + Posit16(1.4)
Posit16(2.7001953125)
>>> x = Posit16(7)
uA.ui : 29056
Posit16(22.0)
```
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+For a basic performance test of the API, try: `python timing.py`
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## Building
The cython module can be built in place in the usual way:
`python setup.py build_ext --inplace`
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.
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+The package can also be installed to a local Python distribution with pip, i.e. `pip install .` using the appropriate pip.