?iga Lenar?i? wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Yes, that's probably a good idea. I certainly expect fft to be
reasonably fast.
Ray