On 10/05/2011 1:11 PM, Bruce McGuffin wrote:
GnuRadio is cheap, but really poorly documented, buggy, and based on
Python,
which is not very widely known. So it appeals to academics because
they have more (student's) time than money, and doesn't appeal to
business
because their time costs more. Also they don't trust it because they
can't
get customer support.
Bruce
Again, I'll point out that most functional blocks in Gnu Radio are
written in C++, and for quite some time now, you have been able to construct
Gnu Radio flow-graphs using a purely C++ approach. I personally
don't use that approach, because I'm not a C++ guy, and GRC emits Python.
But a fair number of others these days use the C++
flow-graph-constructing architecture. It's conceivable that one might
in the future have
a version of GRC that emits C++, instead of Python. But that's a
significant project, and most of the time, the fact that the flow-graph is
constructed in Python has essentially-zero performance implications.
All software is buggy. It doesn't matter whether it's commercially
produced or not. I find Gnu Radio to be reasonably-good quality in this
department (although earlier versions were buggier). I don't find it
to be any more or less buggy than commercial software of similar
scope and maturity.
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