[manual] fftw unclear to me

[David Bateman]

Francesco Potorti` wrote:
>>> Then I could ask myself: what are the FFTW libaries, and what should I
>>> do to initialize them?
>>>   
>>>       
>> If you don't understand what a library is, you shouldn't be using fftw 
>> as it can do you more harm than good in the wrong hands..
>>     
>
> I suspect many people using Octave have a very shallow knowledge of an
> operating system's internals.  From another point of view, they are
> using Octave, and the manual should allow them to understand how it
> works.  If you think that my proposal makes things unnecessarily complex
> I can try to reword it.
>
>   
>> I'm not sure of the process of appending a string from Octave to the 
>> system-wide wisdom file. Frankly, if you want to do this you are better 
>> off using the tool "fftw_wisdom" supplied with FFTW itself to manipulate 
>> this file. I'd therefore rather not document this.
>>     
>
> Or else simply add something that mentions the fftw-wisdom program.
>
>   
Do you want to propose a changeset that applies after mine?

D.


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