The goal of Universal Numbers, or unums, is to replace IEEE floating-point with
a number system that is more efficient and mathematically consistent in
concurrent execution environments.
The motivation to replace IEEE floating-point had been brewing in the HPC
community since the late 90's as most algorithms became memory bound. The
inefficiency of IEEE floating-point has been measured and agreed upon, but it
was the AI Deep Learning community that moved first and replaced IEEE with
number systems that are tailored to the application to yield speed-ups of two
to three orders of magnitude.
The Universal library is a ready-to-use header-only library that provides
plug-in replacement for native types, and provides a low-friction environment
to start exploring alternatives to IEEE floating-point in your own algorithms.
===> The following configuration options are available for universal-fp-library-5.10.0:
TOOLS=off: Build command line tools
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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