Great stuff! I'm wondering what's the "realworld" difference between JaCoP and CHOCO. Why did you choose the former?
On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 5:39:46 AM UTC+4, Alex Engelberg wrote: > > http://github.com/aengelberg/clocop > > CloCoP is a Clojure wrapper of the Java library JaCoP. The acronyms stand > for "Clojure/Java Constraint Programming". This invites comparison to the > core.logic library, and you may wonder why we need both. There are a few > ways in which, in my opinion, the JaCoP system is better than core.logic: > > - JaCoP is more "plug-in-able," with an extensive set of > customizations to the way that the search operates. There are interfaces > for different components of the search, and each has several > implementations. > - I found that with core.logic, I was somewhat limited by the set of > available constraints. JaCoP has many different constraints that seem to > more suit my needs for solving challenging problems. > - As the core.logic people > say,<https://github.com/clojure/core.logic/wiki/External-solvers>JaCoP is > anywhere from 10X-100X faster than core.logic at solving Finite > Domain problems. > > JaCoP has a lot of "global constraints" which are very powerful and > essential for describing certain problems. As Radoslaw Szymanek (an > author of JaCoP) says, "CP without global constraints is just [a] plain > academic toy. Using problems with arithmetic constraints is doing CP bad > publicity." > > If you'd like to see implementations of sample problems in CloCoP, check > out the test > cases<https://github.com/aengelberg/clocop/tree/master/test/clocop> > (https://github.com/aengelberg/clocop/tree/master/test/clocop). > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
