Comments about FFT



?iga Lenar?i? wrote:
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> Maxima's $fft is now only 2x slower than bordeaux-fft in SBCL. I'm
> still all for using bordeaux-fft since it's free GPLd code (and has
> been even maintained, whatever that means), 
This, unfortunately, won't happen.  My version of gcl (2.6.8pre whatever
that means) doesn't have equalp hash-tables, which bordeaux-fft uses. 
Too bad.


> but if complex lisp numbers are slow on other lisps, then it's not a
> good idea. I only have Clozure CL and SBCL on my computer. Timings
> from ECL and GCL would matter - perhaps I'll even install ECL and
> compare...
I did try ecl (0.8.x).  Maxima's fft is about 1.5x slower than bordeaux
fft, FWIW, and about 10 times slower than cmucl on the same machine.

Ray