On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 02:30 AM, Paul wrote:
The biggest question for me with the stock complete v3 sbitx, is it worth it, would the sbitx code take advantage of the extra 32-bits and run any better? If the answer to this is yes, then absolutely I too would be interested in a write up of your experiences installing and building.
"Any better" is a low bar.? I'll share what I wrote earlier:
Doing things like signal processing in 64 bit chunks is more efficient than doing them in 32 bit chunks.? Chances are really high that the phone in your pocket is using an ARM chip in 64-bit mode for similar reasons.?
I think it definitely will run better, but not night and day better.
I am not a programmer but I can find my way around when I have to. There are a few things I would like to improve on the sbitx more from a usability perspective but would do this upgrade first before starting anything else to provide a good base to work from.
IMO the best thing to do with your time is to incorporate Steve Beckman (N3SB)'s pull requests for ALSA sound and FFTW DSP.
The first gets rid of a lot of the crackling sounds and the second avoids starting up and seeing tons of "ghosts" everywhere.
Then look at the rest of the pull requests and decide which ones are good bang for the buck.
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Regards,
Dave, N1AI
Dave, N1AI