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cannam@127 4 FFTW Frequently Asked Questions with Answers
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cannam@127 17 FFTW Frequently Asked Questions with Answers
cannam@127 18 </h1>
cannam@127 19 This is the list of Frequently Asked Questions about FFTW, a
cannam@127 20 collection of fast C routines for computing the Discrete Fourier
cannam@127 21 Transform in one or more dimensions.
cannam@127 22 <h1>
cannam@127 23 Index
cannam@127 24 </h1>
cannam@127 25
cannam@127 26 <ul>
cannam@127 27 <li><b><font size="+2"><a href="section1.html" rel=subdocument>Section 1. Introduction and General Information</a></font></b>
cannam@127 28 <li><a href="section1.html#whatisfftw" rel=subdocument>Q1.1. What is FFTW?</a>
cannam@127 29 <li><a href="section1.html#whereisfftw" rel=subdocument>Q1.2. How do I obtain FFTW?</a>
cannam@127 30 <li><a href="section1.html#isfftwfree" rel=subdocument>Q1.3. Is FFTW free software?</a>
cannam@127 31 <li><a href="section1.html#nonfree" rel=subdocument>Q1.4. What is this about non-free licenses?</a>
cannam@127 32 <li><a href="section1.html#west" rel=subdocument>Q1.5. In the West? I thought MIT was in the East?</a>
cannam@127 33 <br><br><li><b><font size="+2"><a href="section2.html" rel=subdocument>Section 2. Installing FFTW</a></font></b>
cannam@127 34 <li><a href="section2.html#systems" rel=subdocument>Q2.1. Which systems does FFTW run on?</a>
cannam@127 35 <li><a href="section2.html#runOnWindows" rel=subdocument>Q2.2. Does FFTW run on Windows?</a>
cannam@127 36 <li><a href="section2.html#compilerCrashes" rel=subdocument>Q2.3. My compiler has trouble with FFTW.</a>
cannam@127 37 <li><a href="section2.html#solarisSucks" rel=subdocument>Q2.4. FFTW does not compile on Solaris, complaining about
cannam@127 38 <code>const</code>.</a>
cannam@127 39 <li><a href="section2.html#3dnow" rel=subdocument>Q2.5. What's the difference between <code>--enable-3dnow</code> and <code>--enable-k7</code>?</a>
cannam@127 40 <li><a href="section2.html#fma" rel=subdocument>Q2.6. What's the difference between the fma and the non-fma
cannam@127 41 versions?</a>
cannam@127 42 <li><a href="section2.html#languages" rel=subdocument>Q2.7. Which language is FFTW written in?</a>
cannam@127 43 <li><a href="section2.html#fortran" rel=subdocument>Q2.8. Can I call FFTW from Fortran?</a>
cannam@127 44 <li><a href="section2.html#cplusplus" rel=subdocument>Q2.9. Can I call FFTW from C++?</a>
cannam@127 45 <li><a href="section2.html#whynotfortran" rel=subdocument>Q2.10. Why isn't FFTW written in Fortran/C++?</a>
cannam@127 46 <li><a href="section2.html#singleprec" rel=subdocument>Q2.11. How do I compile FFTW to run in single precision?</a>
cannam@127 47 <li><a href="section2.html#64bitk7" rel=subdocument>Q2.12. --enable-k7 does not work on x86-64</a>
cannam@127 48 <br><br><li><b><font size="+2"><a href="section3.html" rel=subdocument>Section 3. Using FFTW</a></font></b>
cannam@127 49 <li><a href="section3.html#fftw2to3" rel=subdocument>Q3.1. Why not support the FFTW 2 interface in FFTW
cannam@127 50 3?</a>
cannam@127 51 <li><a href="section3.html#planperarray" rel=subdocument>Q3.2. Why do FFTW 3 plans encapsulate the input/output arrays and not just
cannam@127 52 the algorithm?</a>
cannam@127 53 <li><a href="section3.html#slow" rel=subdocument>Q3.3. FFTW seems really slow.</a>
cannam@127 54 <li><a href="section3.html#slows" rel=subdocument>Q3.4. FFTW slows down after repeated calls.</a>
cannam@127 55 <li><a href="section3.html#segfault" rel=subdocument>Q3.5. An FFTW routine is crashing when I call it.</a>
cannam@127 56 <li><a href="section3.html#fortran64" rel=subdocument>Q3.6. My Fortran program crashes when calling FFTW.</a>
cannam@127 57 <li><a href="section3.html#conventions" rel=subdocument>Q3.7. FFTW gives results different from my old
cannam@127 58 FFT.</a>
cannam@127 59 <li><a href="section3.html#nondeterministic" rel=subdocument>Q3.8. FFTW gives different results between runs</a>
cannam@127 60 <li><a href="section3.html#savePlans" rel=subdocument>Q3.9. Can I save FFTW's plans?</a>
cannam@127 61 <li><a href="section3.html#whyscaled" rel=subdocument>Q3.10. Why does your inverse transform return a scaled
cannam@127 62 result?</a>
cannam@127 63 <li><a href="section3.html#centerorigin" rel=subdocument>Q3.11. How can I make FFTW put the origin (zero frequency) at the center of
cannam@127 64 its output?</a>
cannam@127 65 <li><a href="section3.html#imageaudio" rel=subdocument>Q3.12. How do I FFT an image/audio file in <i>foobar</i> format?</a>
cannam@127 66 <li><a href="section3.html#linkfails" rel=subdocument>Q3.13. My program does not link (on Unix).</a>
cannam@127 67 <li><a href="section3.html#linkheader" rel=subdocument>Q3.14. I included your header, but linking still
cannam@127 68 fails.</a>
cannam@127 69 <li><a href="section3.html#nostack" rel=subdocument>Q3.15. My program crashes, complaining about stack
cannam@127 70 space.</a>
cannam@127 71 <li><a href="section3.html#leaks" rel=subdocument>Q3.16. FFTW seems to have a memory leak.</a>
cannam@127 72 <li><a href="section3.html#allzero" rel=subdocument>Q3.17. The output of FFTW's transform is all zeros.</a>
cannam@127 73 <li><a href="section3.html#vbetalia" rel=subdocument>Q3.18. How do I call FFTW from the Microsoft language du
cannam@127 74 jour?</a>
cannam@127 75 <li><a href="section3.html#pruned" rel=subdocument>Q3.19. Can I compute only a subset of the DFT outputs?</a>
cannam@127 76 <li><a href="section3.html#transpose" rel=subdocument>Q3.20. Can I use FFTW's routines for in-place and out-of-place matrix
cannam@127 77 transposition?</a>
cannam@127 78 <br><br><li><b><font size="+2"><a href="section4.html" rel=subdocument>Section 4. Internals of FFTW</a></font></b>
cannam@127 79 <li><a href="section4.html#howworks" rel=subdocument>Q4.1. How does FFTW work?</a>
cannam@127 80 <li><a href="section4.html#whyfast" rel=subdocument>Q4.2. Why is FFTW so fast?</a>
cannam@127 81 <br><br><li><b><font size="+2"><a href="section5.html" rel=subdocument>Section 5. Known bugs</a></font></b>
cannam@127 82 <li><a href="section5.html#rfftwndbug" rel=subdocument>Q5.1. FFTW 1.1 crashes in rfftwnd on Linux.</a>
cannam@127 83 <li><a href="section5.html#fftwmpibug" rel=subdocument>Q5.2. The MPI transforms in FFTW 1.2 give incorrect results/leak
cannam@127 84 memory.</a>
cannam@127 85 <li><a href="section5.html#testsingbug" rel=subdocument>Q5.3. The test programs in FFTW 1.2.1 fail when I change FFTW to use single
cannam@127 86 precision.</a>
cannam@127 87 <li><a href="section5.html#teststoobig" rel=subdocument>Q5.4. The test program in FFTW 1.2.1 fails for n &gt;
cannam@127 88 46340.</a>
cannam@127 89 <li><a href="section5.html#linuxthreads" rel=subdocument>Q5.5. The threaded code fails on Linux Redhat 5.0</a>
cannam@127 90 <li><a href="section5.html#bigrfftwnd" rel=subdocument>Q5.6. FFTW 2.0's rfftwnd fails for rank &gt; 1 transforms with a final
cannam@127 91 dimension &gt;= 65536.</a>
cannam@127 92 <li><a href="section5.html#primebug" rel=subdocument>Q5.7. FFTW 2.0's complex transforms give the wrong results with prime
cannam@127 93 factors 17 to 97.</a>
cannam@127 94 <li><a href="section5.html#mpichbug" rel=subdocument>Q5.8. FFTW 2.1.1's MPI test programs crash with
cannam@127 95 MPICH.</a>
cannam@127 96 <li><a href="section5.html#aixthreadbug" rel=subdocument>Q5.9. FFTW 2.1.2's multi-threaded transforms don't work on
cannam@127 97 AIX.</a>
cannam@127 98 <li><a href="section5.html#bigprimebug" rel=subdocument>Q5.10. FFTW 2.1.2's complex transforms give incorrect results for large prime
cannam@127 99 sizes.</a>
cannam@127 100 <li><a href="section5.html#solaristhreadbug" rel=subdocument>Q5.11. FFTW 2.1.3's multi-threaded transforms don't give any speedup on
cannam@127 101 Solaris.</a>
cannam@127 102 <li><a href="section5.html#aixflags" rel=subdocument>Q5.12. FFTW 2.1.3 crashes on AIX.</a>
cannam@127 103 </ul><hr>
cannam@127 104 <address>
cannam@127 105 <A href="http://www.fftw.org">Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson</A> / <A href="mailto:fftw@fftw.org">fftw@fftw.org</A>
cannam@127 106 - 30 July 2016
cannam@127 107 </address><br>
cannam@127 108 Extracted from FFTW Frequently Asked Questions with Answers,
cannam@127 109 Copyright &copy; 2016 Matteo Frigo and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
cannam@127 110 </body></html>