Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using volk in Mac: test report

[Carles Fernandez]

Great!

You guys are making all this stuff pretty easy to use, even for
non-experts. Thanks for letting us squeeze our processors :-)

Carles



On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Tom Rondeau <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Nick Foster <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Carles Fernandez
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for the inputs!
>>>
>>> We are interested in determining the best architecture at instantation
>>> time. What would be the best strategy? We though about running the
>>> same operations several times for each architecture, measure the
>>> results and use the fastest one for the processing blocks. Would this
>>> be the right approach?
>>
>>
>> Carles,
>>
>> Run volk_profile. It does exactly what you said, and writes the results to
>> ~/.volk/volk_config. Volk reads this file when it is involked (sorry) to
>> determine which particular function to execute. So all you do is run
>> volk_profile once on any given machine, and it's optimized.
>>
>> --n
>
>
> Carles,
> This is discussed on the webpage:
> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/volk
>
> We'll be updating this as things progress with Volk, but the profiler info
> is there already.
>
> Tom
>