A complete and general index of handlers, commands and functions

[Richard Gaskin]

Alejandro Tejada wrote:

 > I have been looking (without success) in mail list's archives,
 > forums and within my own stack's archives a LiveCode's
 > implementation of Fast Fourier Transform.
 >
 > A FFT function was not found among math library's functions of
 > joneslib stack:
 > http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/personal/djones/metacard/joneslib.mc

The original JonesLib contains some tokens which conflict with more 
recent versions of LiveCode.

I've been in touch with the author of JonesLib, Dr. David L. Jones of 
University of South Florida, and he's granted permission to update 
JonesLib to work with current versions of LiveCode.  In fact, he seemed 
sincerely pleased that the library is recognized as valuable, and was 
very encouraging in our correspondence.

Sturgis generously made a first pass at an update to JonesLib, and while 
he took care of all of the conflicts at the time, unfortunately there's 
still one more token in conflict with the most recent version of LC, 
"variance".

His build, and a discussion of the library in general, is in the forums:
<http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10976>

In addition to either renaming or deleting the Variance function, there 
may be opportunities to optimize JonesLib.  My post in that thread from 
this morning includes links to some interesting tips on performance from 
Wil Dijkstra which may be helpful - he's done some unusually thorough 
analysis of optimization techniques.

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