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Remove float128 dtype #4514

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@twiecki twiecki commented Mar 9, 2021

Does not exist on Windows and newer OSX versions and furthermore does not to be properly supported even if it does exist: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29820829/cannot-use-128bit-float-in-python-on-64bit-architecture

Closes #4513.

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Fair enough.

I'm a bit surprised that only 3 files had to be changed. Did you search the entire project for "float128"?

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twiecki commented Mar 9, 2021

I did.

@michaelosthege michaelosthege merged commit a7c5646 into master Mar 9, 2021
@michaelosthege michaelosthege deleted the remove_dtype_float128 branch March 9, 2021 10:21
ricardoV94 pushed a commit to ricardoV94/pymc that referenced this pull request Mar 10, 2021
* Remove float128 dtype which does not exist on Windows and newer OSX versions and furthermore does not to be properly supported even if it does exist.
* Add float128 to release-notes. Add link to memoization PR.
* Remove unused imports.
ethervoid pushed a commit to ethervoid/pymc3 that referenced this pull request Jul 1, 2021
* Remove float128 dtype which does not exist on Windows and newer OSX versions and furthermore does not to be properly supported even if it does exist.
* Add float128 to release-notes. Add link to memoization PR.
* Remove unused imports.
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@michaelosthege could be possible to backport this change to the v3? Right now is only in v4 and you can get some problems if you're using an Apple M1

michaelosthege pushed a commit to michaelosthege/pymc that referenced this pull request Jul 2, 2021
Backport of pymc-devs#4514.

* Remove float128 dtype which does not exist on Windows and newer OSX versions and furthermore does not to be properly supported even if it does exist.
* Add float128 to release-notes. Add link to memoization PR.
* Remove unused imports.
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@ethervoid see #4834

michaelosthege pushed a commit to michaelosthege/pymc that referenced this pull request Jul 5, 2021
Backport of pymc-devs#4514.

Removes float128 dtype which does not exist on Windows and newer OSX versions and furthermore does not to be properly supported even if it does exist.
twiecki added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 5, 2021
Backport of #4514.

Removes float128 dtype which does not exist on Windows and newer OSX versions and furthermore does not to be properly supported even if it does exist.
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Float type 'float128' causes issues and is unnecessary
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