This month, additional work was done to clean up bugs encountered in the C API for the RADE library. One bug in particular involved an interaction between the threading already present in freedv-gui and the threads Python itself creates (i.e. for PyTorch); this bug resulted in extremely slow operation and even deadlocks in some cases.
Once this work was completed, it was time to integrate it into RADE. This work culminated into the first preview release of FreeDV with RADE support. Initial feedback thus far has been extremely positive, indicating that we’re on the right track with meeting the goals set out in the ARDC grant.
Further work over the next few months will involve fixing bugs discovered by users of this preview release as well as work on adding missing functionality (such as received callsign reporting) and a port of the main logic in the library to C to reduce/eliminate the need for Python.
More information can be found in the commit history below:
(Note that all commit logs above were generated with the following command line:)
git log --author="member@email" --after "Month 1, 2024" --before "Month 31, 2024" --all > commit.log