Gecode
Gecode is an open, free, portable, accessible, and
efficient environment for developing constraint-based systems
and applications. Gecode is:
- open
- Gecode is radically open for programming: it can be
easily interfaced to other
systems. It supports the programming of new propagators (as
implementation of constraints), branching strategies, and
search engines. New variable domains can be programmed at the same
level of efficiency as finite domain and integer set variables
that come predefined with Gecode.
- free
- Gecode is distributed under the MIT license and is
listed as free software by the FSF. All of its parts
including documentation, implementations of global constraints,
and examples are available as
source code for download.
- portable
- Gecode is implemented in C++ that carefully follows the C++ standard.
It can be compiled with modern C++ compilers and runs on
a wide range of machines (including 64bit machines).
- accessible
- Gecode comes with both tutorial and complete reference documentation
that allows users to focus on different modeling and programming
tasks with Gecode.
- efficient
- Gecode offers excellent performance with respect to both runtime and
memory usage. A comparison with some other
systems is available.
- parallel
- Gecode complies with reality in that it exploits the multiple cores
of today's commodity hardware for parallel search, giving an already
efficient base system an additional edge.
