Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Using gnu-radio for project

[Eric Blossom]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:50:50PM -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Eric Blossom <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 02:03:14PM -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> >> > This is great.  What we've been thinking about is building a library
> >> > of SIMD accelerated primitives, along the lines of Intel's Integrated
> >> > Performance Primitives.  The crucial differences would be: free
> >> > software (GPLv3); support for SSE, SSE2, SSE3, Altivec and Cell SPE
> >> > instruction sets.
> >>
> >> Do you mind adding NEON to this list?  NEON is a SIMD unit on ARM
> >> Cortex-A8 processors. Information on NEON instructions is at
> >> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0204h/Bcfjicfj.html.
> >> Sorry it si the superseded link, I'm too lazy to find the current one
> >> :)
> >
> >
> > NEON's fine by me, as long as you're doing the work :-)
> 
> I just want to make sure the work has somewhere to go.

Yep, me too.

> >> liboil is used by a number of desktop programs, spending time on this
> >> would be a win for me :)
> >
> > The issues I see with it is that there's currently no support for
> > complex-<anything> in the framework, and that the intel function naming
> > convention doesn't map well (at all?) into the liboil framework.
> 
> Well, who said it was an Intel dominated world?

Nobody.  However, they have provided over 1000 pages of detailed
documentation on their API.  Since a big part of any effort is
figuring out what the API should be, I'd prefer to use theirs (and
their documentation) than to reinvent the wheel.

Eric