It's the addressing scheme that generates the successive indices for processing an array (typically a complex vector) when performing an fft. That's the only use I know of for it, but there may be others.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Grant Rettke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:grettke@acm.org">grettke@acm.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Doug<br>
<div class="im">Williams<<a href="mailto:m.douglas.williams@gmail.com">m.douglas.williams@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> As far as I know, PLT Scheme currently does all of its calculations in<br>
> double-precision. But, I can control the stored representation of the<br>
> underlying representation now. It's that structure than can allow us to code<br>
> efficient butterfly addressing for ffts, etc for the numerical analysis<br>
> code. We can worry about compiler efficiency in the future.<br>
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</div>What is butterfly addressing?<br>
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There are some search results for it, but nothing obvious stands out.<br>
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