Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Really big items, best practices?

[Martin Braun]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 08:03:52PM -0500, Tom Rondeau wrote:
> Thinking of the results as one large matrix item probably isn't going to work.
> As you said, there's a system limitation at play here.  What if, instead, you
> passed the data along as though it were a stream of floats (or complex 
> floats).
> Along side that, the block that creates the matrix sends a "start of matrix"
> and "end of matrix" tag, so the blocks down the line know what to look for and
> can reassemble the matrix from there.
> 
> 
> I'm assuming that all of your blocks in the chain that deal with the data as a
> matrix are home-brewed and not current blocks, so you would only need to add
> the tag-handling capabilities to your blocks.

Hi Tom,

thanks for the suggestion. We've been doing it similarly, only without
the tags--following blocks simply knew what was coming and pieced it
together accordingly. The tags might actually be a nicer solution, much
more flexible.

Cheers
MB


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