2011/10/28 Stéfan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
> Memory use is a known problem. One way to start addressing it might be to
> implement a "bit" arraytype. It might even be possible to prototype that on
> top of the existing types. Views make bit arrays a bit more interesting ;)

Since 1/8 can be represented exactly in floating point, I guess it's
technically possible to support non-integer strides?

I think the same effect could be obtained with fixed point integers, i.e., the last three bits are the fractional part.

Chuck