Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Intel Mac GNURadio Install Update Soon

[Martin Dvh]

Michael Dickens wrote:
> I finally got access to an Intel Mac for a couple of days last week, 
> and sometime in the next couple of days I'll be posting updates to  the
> install scripts to handle the needs of both PPC and Intel OSX 
> installs.  It wasn't really that hard since I've done it all before, 
> and I can say definitely that a MacBook Pro (Core Duo 2.0 GHz) is  much
> faster than a dual G5 @ 2.0 GHz (like about 2-2.5x faster in  compile
> time alone).  Very impressive machines these new Intel Macs.   The Intel
> Macs also bring the USB functionality up to 32 MBps, which  is on par
> with Linux at least w/r.t. GNURadio's USRP.  The only  significant
> runtime glitch that I can find is that the FUSB_darwin  code needs to do
> endianness translation now, but that's relatively  simple to add (just
> difficult to test w/o an Intel Mac around to test  on; any volunteers?).
If anyone has osX running on a non-mac x86 machine this should also probably be 
enough to test the endian related issues.
I know there is doubt wether it is legal to run OsX on a non-mac machine, but I 
also now that several people have done it and that it is
technically possible.
You do need a machine which has at least SSE,SSE2 , it works much better if the 
machine also has SSE3.
Since my machine has no SSE at all, I am not volunteering.
(I still work on an early generation athlon which only has 3Dnow)

greetings,
Martin

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