Consider other floating-point types

[jonysy]

Adding mini-floats (f24, f16, f8, et cetera) as native types has been discussed before:

When it comes to bigger data-structures, which require a higher dynamic range than integers can provide (raw image photography, videos, voxel data, etc.) f32 has some disadvantages. The obvious one is size: Using f32 as data type, a raw image of a 20 Mpx camera would produce 80 MB of data. The other reason is speed when it comes to real-time applications (like the computation of optical flow in computer vision) [1]

Useful links

• Adding “minifloats” (f24, f16, f8) as native types
• Half-precision floating-point format
• Half (crate)
• State of f16 and f128 in Rust
• Fraction