SYSTEM FOR COMPRESSING FLOATING POINT DATA

The present invention discloses a system for compressing floating point data. A processor comprises a first memory to store data elements that are encoded according to a floating point format including a sign field, an exponent field, and a significand field; and a compression engine comprising circuitry, the compression engine to generate a compressed data block that is to include a tag type perdata element, wherein responsive to a determination that a first data element includes a value in its exponent field that does not match a value of any entry in a dictionary, a first tag type and an uncompressed value of the data element are included in the compressed data block; and responsive to a determination that a second data element includes a value in its exponent field that matches a value of a first entry in the dictionary, a second tag type and a compressed value of the data element are included in the compressed data block. 本申请公开了一种用于压缩浮点数据的系统。处理器包括第一存储器，用于存储根据浮点格式编码的数据元素，该浮点格式包括符号字段、指数字段、和有效数字段；以及包括电路的压缩引