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

I thought the 1 thread execution scheduler was deprecated in gnuradio?

al fayez

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Dickens <mlk@alum.mit.edu>
To: Alexander Chemeris <alexander.chemeris@gmail.com>
Cc: Gnuradio-discuss <discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org>
Sent: Sat, May 28, 2011 11:38 am
Subject: 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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