On May 19, 3:07 pm, Vicent Giner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, of course, but that should mean that I have to do it better, in > the programming step (I would have to re-program or re-implement my > algorithm). And I think the problem would be the same in any other > language, wouldn't it?
The idea is that a C version of the same program could take, eg. 0,4 hours. But I think we have an authoritative answer here, see Robin Becker's post (even though he programmed the problem, not the algorithm). :-) > Are there such toolkits in other languages? I am not sure they exist > in C, for example. I'm sure there are a lot of toolkits for linear programming (can't tell about other solvers). glpk is the GNU implementation. It even has its own built-in language (Mathprog). Someone posted an interesting link of a python wrapper: "OpenOpt" http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/OpenOpt It supports many solvers. It may be interesting for you, since there are some non-linear and "global" problem solvers: http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/OOClasses > By the way, is it possible (and easy) to call a C function from a > Python program?? Yes. The easiest way I know of is using SWIG. People will recommend you Cython too. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
