Add 8-bit integers back. #538
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damyanp
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Can someone please re-run the CLA thing? It should be resolved on my end. |
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CLA bot should be pleased now? I should have been added. |
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| This proposal introduces 8-bit integer types to HLSL, to align it more closely with C/C++ and other languages, and allow tight interop with the 8-bit types used in the cooperative vector proposal. |
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| ## Introduction | ||
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| This proposal introduces 8-bit integer types to HLSL, to align it more closely with C/C++ and other languages, and allow tight interop with the 8-bit types used in the cooperative vector proposal. |
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As the cooperative vector proposal has been rejected it might be better reframe this proposal. Does it still make sense when combined with the linear algebra matrix proposal? Does this proposal bring enough benefits on its own without tying it to another one?
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It's somewhat orthogonal (8-bit types have value on their own), but it's obviously help LinAlg too instead of using packed types there. I'll rephrase.
Co-authored-by: Damyan Pepper <damyanp@microsoft.com>
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Allow
i8andu8types, which are useful for pre-processing/post-processing data used in cooperative matrix/vector operations. Right now it's really ugly to unpack/pack viai32. This proposal enablesi8andu8as native types in the shader core.