Messages in this thread | | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Date | Tue, 9 Jul 2019 20:06:13 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] rslib: Add tests for the encoder and decoder |
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Hi Ferdinand,
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 4:13 PM Ferdinand Blomqvist <ferdinand.blomqvist@gmail.com> wrote: > A Reed-Solomon code with minimum distance d can correct any error and > erasure pattern that satisfies 2 * #error + #erasures < d. If the > error correction capacity is exceeded, then correct decoding cannot be > guaranteed. The decoder must, however, return a valid codeword or report > failure.
> Note that the tests take a couple of minutes to complete.
On which hardware? ;-)
JFTR, the test succeeded on m68k, after 6 hours and 12 minutes of runtime on an emulated Atari Falcon (ARAnyM hosted by an i7-4770). So far I have no plans to run it on bare metal.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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