lambdatalk FFT

Languages and libraries

functional language demo

SHOW HN2018

100points
32comments
#434of 2,155 in 2018
Top 21%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

LovedMost comments that take a side are positive

4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.37.

Docs: 2 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Code is readable and a good teaching resource

    From 1 comment
    • I'm familiar with most functional languages. This post was in a language with slightly unusual syntax. Still, I found what this is written in to be surprisingly quite readable.…
      dpwm on HN

Objections

  • Lisp-style implementation is slower than desirable for practical use

    From 1 comment
    • A lisp implementation is cute and can be a nice teaching aid but is slower than desirable for practical applications. What I would really like to see is a reasonably short (small…
      jacobolus on HN

Requests

  • A WebAssembly FFT implementation

    From 1 comment
    • A lisp implementation is cute and can be a nice teaching aid but is slower than desirable for practical applications. What I would really like to see is a reasonably short (small…
      jacobolus on HN
  • Implementations in more common languages

    From 1 comment
    • Would be cool if it shows code in most common programming languages
      InGodsName on HN

Questions

  • Is it a translation of the Scheme-based fourlisp code?

    From 1 comment

Alternatives named

  • Rosetta Code FFT implementations

    From 1 comment
    • Most implementations on http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Fast_Fourier_transform use the same algorithm.
      Avshalom on HN
  • dsp.js

    From 1 comment
    • have you seen this? I am not an expert in ffts so maybe it could be improved but it is impressively fast in my experience (also very readable) :…
      sheltron on HN

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