home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!news.cs.brandeis.edu!binah.cc.brandeis.edu!PALAIS
- From: palais@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
- Subject: Re: Has FFT been beaten to the finish line?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.162338.3467@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Sender: news@news.cs.brandeis.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: palais@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
- Organization: Brandeis University
- References: <19364.2b0e9c2a@levels.unisa.edu.au>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:23:38 GMT
- Lines: 8
-
- >> I have heard a rumour of a faster algorithm for FT than the FFT
- >> and the rumour even comes with a percentage improvement of 15%.
- >> If this is true could someone please point me to code and/or
- >> theory/description of it.
-
- I don't know whether this is related to what you heard, but there has
- recently been developed a fast WAVELET transform, which is asymptotically
- a lot better than the FFT (its O(n) as opposed to O(n log n) for the FFT).
-