By: David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com), October 26, 2016 1:22 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Jim Trent (i.delete@this.ii.iii) on October 26, 2016 7:15 am wrote:
> Great article on a very interesting topic! Spotted two small typos:
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> (Apple Boosts Performance, Power Efficiency with Smaller Registers)
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> Apple’s engineers emphasized that using half-precision offers much better
> performance and power efficiency of single-precision, making it clear that
> their architecture is focused on half-precision as a primary design point.
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> "of" -> "than"
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> (Free Conversion Unlocks Half-Precision for Programmers)
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> According to Apple’s presentation, data type conversion is free; which suggests
> that the conversion hardware that sits in the standard data path.
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> -> delete the second "that"
Thanks for picking those up, just fixed them.
David
> Great article on a very interesting topic! Spotted two small typos:
>
>
> (Apple Boosts Performance, Power Efficiency with Smaller Registers)
>
> Apple’s engineers emphasized that using half-precision offers much better
> performance and power efficiency of single-precision, making it clear that
> their architecture is focused on half-precision as a primary design point.
>
> "of" -> "than"
>
>
> (Free Conversion Unlocks Half-Precision for Programmers)
>
> According to Apple’s presentation, data type conversion is free; which suggests
> that the conversion hardware that sits in the standard data path.
>
> -> delete the second "that"
Thanks for picking those up, just fixed them.
David