# sfpy
softfloat and softposit in Python
+ * support for softfloat float16, float32, and float64
* support for softposit posit8, quire8, posit16, and quire16
- * no softfloat support yet, still WIP
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+
## Demo
```
->>> from sfpy import Posit16, Quire16
->>> Posit16(1.3) + Posit16(1.4)
-Posit16(2.7001953125)
->>> x = Posit16(7)
->>> x
-Posit16(1.7881393432617188e-07)
->>> x += Posit16(9)
->>> x
-Posit16(4.76837158203125e-07)
->>> q = Quire16()
->>> q.fdp_add(Posit16(11.0), Posit16(2.0))
->>> q
-uA.ui : 29056
-Quire16(22.0)
->>> q.p16
-uA.ui : 29056
-Posit16(22.0)
+# WIP
```
-For a basic performance test of the API, try: `python timing.py`
-
## Building
-The cython module can be built in place in the usual way:
-`python setup.py build_ext --inplace`
-This requires the submodules to be checked out, and the static library `SoftPosit/build/Linux-x86_64-GCC/softposit.a` to be built. Note that in order for cython to be able to build the shared object for the module, the static library must be compiled with -fPIC, which currently requires modifying the appropriate Makefile manually.
-
-The package can also be installed to a local Python distribution with pip, i.e. `pip install .` using the appropriate pip.
+See [BUILDING](BUILDING.md).
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