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[jira] [Updated] (ARROW-6436) [C++] vendor a half precision floating point library

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6436?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Wes McKinney updated ARROW-6436:
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    Fix Version/s:     (was: 1.0.0)

> [C++] vendor a half precision floating point library
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>                 Key: ARROW-6436
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-6436
>             Project: Apache Arrow
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: C++
>            Reporter: Ben Kietzman
>            Priority: Major
>
> Clang and GCC provide _Float16 and there are numerous polyfills which can emulate a 16 bit float for other platforms. This would fill a hole in the kernels and other code which don't currently support HALF_FLOAT.



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