[Discuss-gnuradio] PROCESSING OF LARGE NUMBER OF SAMPLES

[Simone Ciccia S210664]

Goodmorning,
I have general questions about processing a fixed number of samples.

In front of the necessity to process N samples (N=8192 items) in a
sinchronous block, I developed a mechanism like this:
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if(noutput_items>N)
        { 
        processing of N elements
        consume(N); return(N);  //in this way I process the required N elements
        }
else
        {consume(0); return(0);} // here I'm waiting until the input buffer 
reach
the required number of elements
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Probably is not the convenctional way to do this, but for now it works
well.
My questions are:
        - Is there a convenctional way to do this?
        - it seems that N cannot be larger than 8192, how can I enlarge the 
input
buffer?