Re: [Swftools-common] 0.9.2 - Patch fixes compile error in conftest for fftw on OSX

[Matthias Kramm]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:20:06PM +0000, P. Martin <address@hidden> wrote:
> The conftest links only against -lfftwf, but it uses fftw_malloc.
> So I get an error where that symbol is not found.  I ran an
>   nm /usr/local/lib/libfftwf.dylib | grep fftw_malloc
> and got no hits using fftw-3.3.1.  The patch is located in
> my repo here:

Thanks for the patch! I applied it to git.

> With my patch the software compiles correctly and links fftw
> into every binary.  May I ask how much faster approximately
> is the processing when using fftw? 

It's not primarily about speed, it's about preserving image quality 
when scaling images up or down. That said, for very large images the
new code *is* faster.

Matthias