fftw
brew install fftw
v3.3.11
GPL-2.0-or-later AND BSD-2-Clause
C library for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform, optimized for speed across multiple CPU architectures.
Why you might care
FFTW is the de facto standard FFT library for C/C++ projects requiring high-performance Fourier transforms. It's faster than most alternatives due to adaptive runtime planning and supports both serial and parallel (OpenMP, MPI) computation. Use it if you're building scientific software, signal processing, or numerical computing applications that need industrial-strength FFT kernels.
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Runtime dependencies
Build dependencies
Links
- https://fftw.org
- Brew formula source: Formula/f/fftw.rb
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