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 extensive reference documentation that
allows to focus
on different programming
tasks with Gecode. In the near future, we intend to release tutorial documentation
explaining the various programming tasks in more detail.
- efficient
- Gecode offers competitive performance with respect to both runtime and
memory usage. A comparison with some other
systems is available.
