Re: [eclipse-clp-users] Eplex message "Cbc3007W No integer variables - nothing to do": How to get rid of?

Ulrich Scholz wrote:
> 
> 
> PS. Two small comments: The explanation of "++X" in the Terminology section
> of the User Manual has a bug.  And I consider the explanation of the
> creation of dynamic solver instances confusing: Maybe you should mention
> that to reuse the atom (e.g., the one unified with Pool in the second
> example of 9.3.2) you need to use eplex_cleanup/0.

++X: Thanks for pointing out the typo. I have corrected it (in the 6.0 
branch).

Solver instances: I am not sure what exactly you mean by `reuse of the 
atom'. You normally don't need to use eplex_cleanup, unless you want to 
destroy the existing instance in a non-logical way, i.e. if you want to 
solve a new problem using the same eplex instance before you backtrack 
over the original instance. I would strongly recommend you to use a 
different eplex instance in such cases.

Secondly, the recommended way of using eplex instances are to declare 
them statically using a directive, as stated in the documentation. You 
should avoid creating eplex instances dynamically (as in the example of 
9.3.2 you cite above), and certainly to avoid creating a large number of 
such eplex instances. Each instance is an ECLiPSe module, and is 
relatively expensive in terms of resources used.

Cheers,

Kish


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