--- David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I'll drop my 2 cents worth on the SETI@Home
> software and then quietly slip
> > out the back door. By far one of the most
> inefficient processes I've ever
> > had the pleasure to run a profile trace against.
> The graphics are
>
> Is the inefficiency in terms of the graphics and
> windows message loop code,
> or in the numerical stuff itself. (Personally I
> question the need for
> floating point for most of it and suspect it is all
> written in high
> level languages.)
>
> > beautiful but the processing time required to
> reduce just 200K of data are
> > excessive. Not bad for a first cut, only time
> will tell.
>
> Don't forget that the data is being solved for a
> large number chirp rates
> and that the input data is only two bits each of I
> and Q, so this represents
> 400K time samples.
>
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