[Haskell-cafe] ANN: two new packages: carray, fft

[Don Stewart]

jed:
> Hopefully these are mature enough to be generally useful.  I would
> appreciate any comments regarding the interface.  The FFTW API is not
> particularly nice for building a pure interface on.  Some of the
> transforms could be made slightly faster at the expense of a much
> nastier interface, but unless someone needs the extra few percent, or is
> pushing the memory limits on their machine, I'm not inclined to expose
> the underlying nastiness.
> 
> 
> * carray     A C-compatible array library.
>     Provides both an immutable and mutable (in the IO monad) interface.
>     Includes utilities for multi-dimensional arrays, slicing and norms.
>     Memory is 16-byte aligned by default to enable use of SIMD
>     instructions.
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/carray
> 
> 
> * fft        Bindings to the FFTW library.
>     Provides high performance discrete fourier transforms in arbitrary
>     dimensions.  Include transforms of complex data, real data, and real
>     to real transforms.
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/fft
> 
> 
> Jed

Excellent work! These fill a key niche. Thanks for contributing!

-- Don