Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Latest trunk on my new dual-core machine

[Eric Blossom]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:26:31PM -0400, Marcus Leech wrote:
> I have a new machine, based on a Pentium D 940 at 3.2Ghz with 1GB of 
> 533Mhz DDR2.  I installed the x86_64 FC6 distribution
>  on it, and then Gnu Radio and its dependencies.
> 
> I ran into small problems with my gr-radio-astronomy applications, that 
> were easy to fix.   It turns out that Numeric.zeros() is
>  now fussy about type correctness in the "number of elements" argument.
> 
> Also, in two places, I inadvertently used a "C" idiom:
> 
> d *= 0.1
> 
> Which caused no problem previously, but caused Python to barf in the new 
> FC6 environment.  I replaced it with:
> 
> d = d * 0.1
> 
> The new machine is working out quite well.  I can process a full 8Mhz of 
> bandwidth, doing both spectral and Continuum
>  modes.  I was able to double the FFT length, as well as double the FFT 
> rate, which should make my spectral analysis
> more sensitive.

Thanks for the report!

Eric