2011/10/28 Stéfan van der Walt <[email protected]> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Charles R Harris > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Memory use is a known problem. One way to start addressing it might be to > > implement a "bit" arraytype. It might even be possible to prototype that > on > > top of the existing types. Views make bit arrays a bit more interesting > ;) > > Since 1/8 can be represented exactly in floating point, I guess it's > technically possible to support non-integer strides? >
I think the same effect could be obtained with fixed point integers, i.e., the last three bits are the fractional part. Chuck
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