Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] VOLK: fast way to log10()?

[Martin Braun]

On 15.09.2015 20:35, Marcus D. Leech wrote:
> Ordinarily, one does a log10 to convert into engineering units at the
> back of, for example, a power-measurement chain.
> 
> There's usually no reason to do that in the middle of a flow-graph,
> where things can stay in linear units.

That's true, but it's also useful to accelerate operations at the end of
a flowgraph :)

The rest of the thread is already discussing the technical details, but
if there's a good way to implement log10 kernels, I'm sure they'd come
in handy.

M