Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] To implement WiMAX with GnuRadio or not?

On May 28, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Alexander Chemeris wrote:
> 5) How well is GnuRadio suited for real-time operation?

In a general sense, yes, GNU Radio is well suited for real-time signal processing of data streams. That said: "Real time" is only meaningful knowing the performance criteria. What sort of performance do you require processing for?

> 5.1) Specifically - is memory allocated from heap with malloc() or it
> supports non-blocking memory pools?

IIRC (Tom? Eric?): GNU Radio uses the standard C++ "new" command for most memory allocations -- and thus it is memory from the heap. One can always overload this method globally or locally if required, to provide memory from pools or other means.

> 5.2) Can the whole flowgraph be executed from a single thread to
> minimize cross-thread communication overhead (and jitter)?

Yes. Your choices are a single thread for all or 1 thread per block. - MLD

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