Comments about FFT PATCH ready



On Aug 31, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Raymond Toy wrote:
>>
>> I'm concerned about the speed of fft on GCL - particularly, does GCL
>> (on windows) compile the code that is loaded with 'load(fft);' in
>> Maxima? Otherwise all 'optimizations' are rather pointless for the  
>> 90%
>> of userbase that runs GCL on Windows.
> load does not normally compile anything.  So it will be rather slow.
>
> Ray
>

Perhaps fft should compile automatically on first load like lapack?  
It's seems reasonable since it's numerical code. Users shouldn't be  
troubled with 'manual' compilation.

Thanks for looking at it.

Regards,
Ziga