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This module contains F56, a 7-byte struct that represents a 56-bit floating point number. The SLVM uses 8-byte Values but the first byte stores the type of the Value so 7 bytes remain for the float. Check out value.rs to see how the F56 is one of the enum variants of the Value struct.
There are open questions about the benefits of using F56 over f32 that will depend on some peformance benchmarking. f32 is simpler and faster. Additionally, there are questions about whether to impl the Eq and Hash Traits https://github.com/sl-sh-dev/sl-sh/issues/125
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- The F56 struct represents a 56-bit floating point number using 7 bytes. Most operations on F56 are done by converting to f64, performing the operation, and then converting back to F56