[manual] fftw unclear to me

Thomas Weber thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com
Thu Sep 18 04:52:32 CDT 2008


Am Donnerstag, den 18.09.2008, 11:37 +0200 schrieb Francesco Potorti`:
> >> 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.  

Then they shouldn't tinker with the expert interface to FFTW. I use FFTW
in both Octave and directly, and have yet to see a need for this kind of
influence over the library.

	Thomas




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