Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] floats over UDP into GRC?

[Mark Cetilia]

Thanks so much Marcus, this makes perfect sense…

Cheers,
Mark

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On Sep 13, 2011, at 7:45 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote:

>> I'm producing the stream in C++ (using openFrameworks) and sending the data 
>> as char arrays,
>> and have confirmed that this is indeed all that is being sent (e.g. "1.25")…
> So, you're sending them in ASCII?  As ASCII strings?
> 
> GRC/gnuradio has no method for dealing with that.  The UDP block assumes 
> native machine-binary format for data coming in
>  over UDP.  Doing it in ASCII (Or Unicode, or whatever) strings will be 
> hugely inefficient, both in terms of bandwidth required--
>  it takes many more bytes to represent a floating-point number in ASCII, than 
> in the native binary format, and converting from
>  strings back into the native binary format is also quite expensive.  Since 
> UDP is entirely binary transparent, there's no reason
>  to send them as ascii strings.  The only thing you have to watch out for is 
> if the raw floating-point format between your two
>  machines is different.  But between x86-family machines, it's all the same.
> 
> 
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