RFR: 8341260: Add Float16 to jdk.incubator.vector [v10]

Tue Oct 29 04:43:10 UTC 2024

On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 04:30:57 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Port of Float16 from java.lang in the lworld+fp16 branch to jdk.incubabor.vector.
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> Joe Darcy has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Add support for proper String -> Float16 conversion.

Updated the PR with new code and tests for properly rounded String -> Float16 conversion only using public JDK/Java SE APIs. Whenever Float16 support is moved to the base module, this implementation can be abandoned in favor of augmenting the existing support for String -> float and String -> double conversion.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21574#issuecomment-2443196962