Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Volk branch on github

[Josh Blum]

> Also, you never want to work on the smallest amount of memory possible.
> This is covered in my discussion on my blog. Making arbitrarily small calls
> to work functions causes much more overhead than just running the unaligned
> version of a Volk call. I found this out pretty quickly when I started
> looking into things. Better to process a large chunk to get back into
> alignment than try to handle calls to small amounts of data.
> 

Perhaps this is because you have a processor that doesn't penalize you
for unaligned loads/stores.

-Josh