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Chris@82:Readers from the Fortran world are used to arrays stored in Chris@82: column-major order (sometimes called “Fortran order”). This is Chris@82: essentially the exact opposite of row-major order in that, here, the Chris@82: first dimension’s index varies most quickly. Chris@82:
Chris@82:If you have an array stored in column-major order and wish to
Chris@82: transform it using FFTW, it is quite easy to do. When creating the
Chris@82: plan, simply pass the dimensions of the array to the planner in
Chris@82: reverse order. For example, if your array is a rank three
Chris@82: N x M x L
matrix in column-major order, you should pass the
Chris@82: dimensions of the array as if it were an L x M x N
matrix
Chris@82: (which it is, from the perspective of FFTW). This is done for you
Chris@82: automatically by the FFTW legacy-Fortran interface
Chris@82: (see Calling FFTW from Legacy Fortran), but you must do it
Chris@82: manually with the modern Fortran interface (see Reversing array dimensions).
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