On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Joseph Martinot-Lagarde <contreba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The problem with FFTW is that its license is more restrictive (GPL), and > > because of this may not be suitable everywhere numpy.fft is. > > A lot of us use NumPy linked with MKL or Accelerate, both of which have > some really nifty FFTs. And the license issue is hardly any worse than > linking with them for BLAS and LAPACK, which we do anyway. We could extend > numpy.fft to use MKL or Accelerate when they are available. > That's what we used to do in scipy, but it was a PITA to maintain. Contrary to blas/lapack, fft does not have a standard API, hence exposing a consistent API in python, including data layout involved quite a bit of work. It is better to expose those through 3rd party APIs. David > Sturla > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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