### 4.4 Advanced Interface ¶

FFTW’s “advanced” interface supplements the basic interface with four new planner routines, providing a new level of flexibility: you can plan a transform of multiple arrays simultaneously, operate on non-contiguous (strided) data, and transform a subset of a larger multi-dimensional array. Other than these additional features, the planner operates in the same fashion as in the basic interface, and the resulting `fftw_plan` is used in the same way (see Using Plans).