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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    Re: FFT (the djbfft)
From:       Charles Samuels <charles () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-03-03 4:55:48
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On Thursday 01 March 2001 03:17 am, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
>    Hi!
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:36:51PM -0800, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > I'm working on replacing our current fft with the djbfft (one that is far
> > faster :).
>
> Great!
>
> > I need to know where to import it.  Should it be in $KDEDIR/lib/djbfft?,
> > soundserver? flow?  Then should I export the API into a FFT namespace to
> > be accessed by arts and noatun cleanly?
>
> I think kdelibs/arts/flow is the right place. For naming the classes/
> functions, you have the following choices:
>
> 1. an Arts::FFT namespace, containing the functionality
> 2. an Arts::FFT class, containing the functionality
>    (probably with static functions due to speed)
> 3. an Arts::fft function, containing the functionality

Should I create a directory? There's a lot of files to compile.


> But you need to put it into the Arts namespace. The reason why aRts is just
> using one single toplevel namespace is that this makes it very unlikely to
> collide with any other third party stuff. Remember that lots of third party
> apps and/or plugins will someway or other link to aRts, and any collision
> of symbols will break something. And FFT is not an that uncommon name ;).
>
>    Cu... Stefan

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Charles Samuels <charles@kde.org>
K Desktop Environment
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