Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Discuss-gnuradio Digest, Vol 102, Issue 11

[Marcus D. Leech]

On 10/05/2011 1:11 PM, Bruce McGuffin wrote:
> GnuRadio is cheap, but really poorly documented, buggy, and based on 
> Python,
> which is not very widely known. So it appeals to academics because
> they have more (student's) time than money, and doesn't appeal to 
> business
> because their time costs more. Also they don't trust it because they 
> can't
> get customer support.
>
> Bruce
Again, I'll point out that most functional blocks in Gnu Radio are 
written in C++, and for quite some time now, you have been able to construct
  Gnu Radio flow-graphs using a purely C++ approach.  I personally 
don't use that approach, because I'm not a C++ guy, and GRC emits Python.
  But a fair number of others these days use the C++ 
flow-graph-constructing architecture.  It's conceivable that one might 
in the future have
  a version of GRC that emits C++, instead of Python.  But that's a 
significant project, and most of the time, the fact that the flow-graph is
  constructed in Python has essentially-zero performance implications.

All software is buggy.  It doesn't matter whether it's commercially 
produced or not.  I find Gnu Radio to be reasonably-good quality in this
  department (although earlier versions were buggier).  I don't find it 
to be any more or less buggy than commercial software of similar
  scope and maturity.