fft algorithms

[Orm Finnendahl]

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the information Mark.  I will check this out when I'm
getting to the audio part of the project (sometime next month
probably).

Yours,
Orm


Am Donnerstag, den 11. April 2002 um 13:11:32 Uhr (-0400) schrieb Marc Lavallée:
> Orm Finnendahl wrote (10 Apr 2002 10:53:20 +0200):
> 
> > I'm just asking because my project will probably contain some heavy
> > fft processing and I'm trying to find out whether it's necessary to
> > implement other fft routines than the existing ones to minimize
> > cpu-load.
> 
> FFT in PD was killing my old PC, so last year I was planning to hack PD
> with a fast FFT library. Now that I have a better PC it's less of a
> priority. There's a couple good FFT libraries out there:
> http://cr.yp.to/djbfft.html
> http://www.fftw.org/~skral/
> http://www.fftw.org/pfftw-0.03.tar.gz
> The last one is optimised for MMX and is fast; it's experimental stuff,
> but I tried it once with some C application and it was working very
> well. Then I tried to replace the mayer fft calls in d_fft.c with the
> ones from the pfftw library. It didn't work so maybe someone have an
> idea how to do it.
> 
> -- 
> Marc
>