Re: interesting FFT benchmarking!

[nwerneck]

It  does  have  a  set  of specialized functions. There is a header file
called  rfftw.h referring to them. Maybe we could create a rfft function
in  octave  that  reads  a  real  vector  and  returns only the positive
half-plane,  like it's done on the library. I'll study how to do it...
:)

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:47:03AM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 29-Jul-2003, Geraint Paul Bevan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | I may be wrong, but I think you'll find that Octave converts real data
> | into complex data before performing a Fourier transform.
> | 
> | If you look in liboctave/oct-fftw.h, you will notice that there is no
> | declaration for octave_fftw involving real matrices.
> 
> Right, when using FFTW, Octave does all FFT calculations using
> complex.  If it is possible to use FFTW to do compute an FFT without
> having to convert the argument to a complex vector first then maybe we
> should do that.  But I don't know FFTW well enough to do it quickly,
> so someone else who does and who is interested will have to do the
> work and submit a patch.

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