>On the general CPU side, modern SIMD instruction sets are often geared towards float, and so eight bit calculations don’t offer a massive computational advantage on recent x86 or ARM chips.
This isn't true, modern SIMD instruction sets have tons of operations for smaller fixed point numbers, as used heavily in video codecs. Unless the author meant some sort of weird 8 bit float?
This isn't true, modern SIMD instruction sets have tons of operations for smaller fixed point numbers, as used heavily in video codecs. Unless the author meant some sort of weird 8 bit float?