Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Interesting observation regarding varying time duration it takes to execute fg.start() [a flowgraph start ala thread spawning??]

[Eric Blossom]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 04:07:58PM -0500, Bishal Thapa wrote:
> Thank you for your reply Eric.
>   I did print delta and delta.microseconds and guess what I did get this:
> 
> Receiver (0) =  BABA0002
> Requested RX Bitrate: 100k
> Probe Level 39
> 0:00:00.000327  [*This is from printing delta*]
> 327  [*This is from printing delta.microseconds*]
> 
> Why do you think I should not get 309us? I am sorry if I don't get something
> fundamental here. Thanks again for helping me out :)

No problem.  309us may be reasonable.

In general the wide variance that you're seeeing could be caused by
pretty much any other activity on the machine.  You are measuring
"wall time".

Eric