On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Nick Foster <nick@ettu...> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Carles Fernandez <
> carles.fernandez@gmai...> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the inputs!
>>
>> We are interested in determining the best architecture at instantation
>> time. What would be the best strategy? We though about running the
>> same operations several times for each architecture, measure the
>> results and use the fastest one for the processing blocks. Would this
>> be the right approach?
>>
>
> Carles,
>
> Run volk_profile. It does exactly what you said, and writes the results to
> ~/.volk/volk_config. Volk reads this file when it is involked (sorry) to
> determine which particular function to execute. So all you do is run
> volk_profile once on any given machine, and it's optimized.
>
> --n
>

Carles,
This is discussed on the webpage:
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/volk

We'll be updating this as things progress with Volk, but the profiler info
is there already.

Tom