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8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 3 stories, 5 comments · first 2014-12-28 · latest 2026-03-21

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  1. It looks like FFTW3 is working on wasm support: https://github.com/FFTW/fftw3/issues/293 You could also try pretty fast fft: https://github.com/JorenSix/pffft.wasm
    comment by wintermute4282 · 2026-03-21 · in We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster
  2. fun fact: the secret sauce that makes fftw fast is a code generator written in ocaml: https://github.com/FFTW/fftw3/tree/master/genfft
    comment by a-dub · 2025-11-07 · in Why I love OCaml (2023)
  3. …Many others that are not direct or heavily publicized like Jane Street eg: https://github.com/FFTW/fftw3 https://github.com/oanda/oflux
    comment by yawaramin · 2025-04-06 · in Making OCaml Safe for Performance Engineering [video]
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    Fftw as Backdoor
    story by marcosthe · 2020-08-16 · 0 comments
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    Coding Conventions in FFTW
    story by zzbn00 · 2019-11-24 · 0 comments
  6. …question/answer seem misleading: GitHub language details of the non-generated sources say 75% C: https://github.com/FFTW/fftw3 FFTW author comment linked from Quora answer contradicts said answer (~2/3 C):…
    comment by sambe · 2018-10-16 · in Why is FFTW written in OCaml and what makes it so fast?
  7. …C https://github.com/samtools/samtools SNAP C http://korflab.ucdavis.edu/software.html fftw3 C https://github.com/FFTW/fftw3 [1]: I went down this list and picked some of the ones I remember using (been out of the HPC world for a couple…
    comment by runlevel1 · 2015-05-02 · in Evaluation of C, Go, and Rust in the HPC environment [pdf]
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    FFTW Fourier transform library
    story by davyjones · 2014-12-28 · 0 comments