Comments/Complaints on NI control system

[Radical Pi]

On the topic of code download and build times, I have seen nothing like that on C++. It probably is beacuse most of the large code is in a precompiled library instead of building every single time you build. I'm don't know much about what can or can't be done with LabVIEW, but if a cache of the compiled code could be kept of the NI libraries, it would greatly speed up builds (From my experiences with the LEGO NXT, it also seems to be in the nature of LabVIEW and variants that programs are unnecisarrily large compared to C equivalents)

@Greg, you said earlier you saw an unexplained delay in camera images showing up. That delay appears to be from the camera taking much longer to boot than the cRIO code, delaying images. This is actually an important time delay for our bot, because in the time between cRIO boot and camera, the console is flooded with errors after camera init is called since it can't connect to the camera, rendering CAN code inoperable due to timing delays messing up the system, as well as a noticable lag in the controls of the robot (probably due to the increased UDP traffic through netconsole)