Closing the Gap Between Float and Posit Hardware Efficiency — HN submission

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:11:03 GMT

Closing the Gap Between Float and Posit Hardware Efficiency

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Closing the Gap Between Float and Posit Hardware Efficiency — mentioned by andrepd

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:10:15 GMT

> Unums have proven difficult to build efficient HW implementations for Valid point, but not quite true anymore. It comes down basically to the latency of count_leading_ones/zeros for decoding the regime, on which everything else depends. But work has been done in the past ~2ish years and we can have posit units with lower latency than FP units of the same width! https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01615 > IEEE floats have a few warts like any other 1980s standard, but they're a fantastic design. Hmm I don't know if I would call it a fantastic design x) The "standard" is less a standard than a rough…

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Closing the Gap Between Float and Posit Hardware Efficiency — HN submission

Closing the Gap Between Float and Posit Hardware Efficiency — mentioned by andrepd