Nice:)

On Sat, Jul 9, 2022 at 6:33 PM Marcus D. Leech <patchvonbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2022-07-09 11:02, Nikos Balkanas wrote:
> > Correction> These functions work on integers.
> >
> > So they go as:
> > int16 data = htobe16(le32toh(int32 data))
> > Or the associate functions,
> > htonl, htons
> >
> > So you need to already have converted your floats to ints...
> > If in doubt, test them first on a single data...
> > Sorry about the confusion.
> >
> > Nikos
> >
> >
> My question would be--why?
>
> UHD and Gnu Radio already do these conversions for you.
>
> The *single* case where being able to send sample data as big-endian
> SC16 without any intervening conversions is from a file.   Anything that
> involves computation-with-samples
>    on the host requires, necessarily, that those samples be in a format
> understood by the CPU on the host.
>
> Further, if there are bottlenecks, I would want to absolutely confirm
> that the major bottleneck in the UHD driver is in doing conversion to
> big-endian wire format before
>    venturing down the road of making that available "directly".     I
> have lost track of this thread, but my recollection is that this file
> originates in a capture from a HackRF
>    whose absolute-maximum sample-rate is 20e6SPS.   That's a rate that
> is *easily* handled by the existing UHD "stack" without resorting to
> this type of optimization, IMHO.
>
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