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Questions about MIP #202

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@CardosoGuiVi

Maybe your questions have been already answered, but first of all, I just want to make some clarifications.

The python-MIP package is not a solver itself. It provides an API with methods and parameters to model linear and integer programs (or mixed ones) in python language and lets them be solved by either the open-source CBC solver (https://github.com/coin-or/Cbc) or the commercial gurobi solver (www.gurobi.com), both written in C programming language.

And CBC in comparison to gurobi has in many general cases a slower runtime on larger/complex models - but CBC is free to use. Also, many of your questions relate to tuning the parameters of the solving algorithm. There is a l…

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This discussion was converted from issue #200 on July 20, 2021 23:16.