[SciPy-dev] Cleaning and fixing fft in scipy ?

[David M. Cooke]

On May 2, 2007, at 05:02 , John Travers wrote:

> On 02/05/07, David Cournapeau <david at ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>>     - My understanding is that except for djbfft backend, all other
>> backend implement fft of any size (eg different than 2^n); so for  
>> djbfft
>> backend, for size different than 2^n, it uses a diffferent  
>> backend. For
>> example, if FFTW (v2) is selected and djbfft detected, then the zfft
>> function is effectively using 2 backend: djbfft and fftw2. Would  
>> it be a
>> big problem if in djbfft case, the sizes != 2^n are always handled
>> through a fixed backend (fftpack I guess) ?
>
> Well, probably not, as people using djbfft probably know what they are
> doing.

Not necessarily :-) It's listed as a possible dependency, so people  
(like me) just install it.

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