[hpsdr] DttSP ovsv.c possible optimization?

[Robert McGwier]

Good point!  I will look at it.

Bob



Philip Covington wrote:
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> Frank, Bob,
> 
> In DttSP ovsv.c, the output of the ifft is normalized over each block.
>  The scaling factor is computed as scale = 1.0/(real) fftlen.
> 
> I am thinking that it should be possible to pre-scale the filter
> coefficients by the same factor (1.0/(real)fftlen).  Since the filter
> is only re-calculated on a filter change and not on a block by block
> basis, this would avoid fftlen (blocksize real + blocksize imag)
> multiplications per block.
> 
> So instead of
> 
> ...
>  /* scale */
>   for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
>     zovec[i].re *= scl, zovec[i].im *= scl;
> ...
> 
> in the function filter_OvSv(...)
> 
> you would apply the same scl factor (1.0/(real)fftlen) to the filter
> calculated in
> 
> newFiltOvSv(...)
> 
> since the fast convolution is a linear operation.
> 
> At least it saves some non-trivial multiplications per bock...
> 
> 73 Phil N8VB
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