half type

Just noticed that Ati's drivers support http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/half_float_vertex.txt

16-Bit floating point makes sense for computer graphics, 32-Bit (or higher) precision is quite an overkill for Normals or Texture Coordinates. Do you think it would make sense to add new types to OpenTK like this?

• half
• half2
• half3
• half4

They don't necessarily have to support any arithmetic operations (use float|double for that), I'm rather thinking about a container that does the pack/unpack and can be easily added to Vertex structs.

Thoughts?

Edit: If I'm understanding http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/... page 21, section 1.5 correctly, we could use short to store it. SSE5 will support float->half and half->float conversion, so future iterations of Mono could improve conversion speed aswell.