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    Nice! I like it when people use the benchmarker. :)<br>
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    Some tips: use a a warmup of 30 seconds (available since 5.3.0.CR1,
    see manual) and give it a bit longer (say 60 seconds), to really be
    sure.<br>
    But in this case, that's not needed: the lines are so straight there
    is no doubt that the hotspot compiler or another process disrupted
    the benchmark.<br>
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    Op 21-10-11 01:04, Guilherme Kunigami schreef:
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      <div class="gmail_quote">2011/10/19 Geoffrey De Smet <span
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            Op 19-10-11 15:00, Guilherme Kunigami schreef:
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                      In this use case, that is probably a bad idea in
                      my experience. Why? Well I hope this makes any
                      sense:<br>
                      <i>You need to allow the optimization algorithms
                        to break it now and then to tunnel through a bad
                        search space into another good search space.</i><br>
                      If it doesn't, don't worry.</div>
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                  <div>Hmm, I think I understood it. Allowing infeasible
                    solutions may help to scape from local minima in the
                    space of feasible solutions for example.</div>
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            Yep :)
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                            <div><font face="'courier new', monospace">rule
                                "Avoid conflicting activities"</font></div>
                            <div><font face="'courier new', monospace">when&nbsp;</font></div>
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                                : room, $act1: activity, $id :&nbsp;<a
                                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  href="http://activity.id/"
                                  target="_blank">activity.id</a>)</font></div>
                            <div><font face="'courier new', monospace"><span
                                  style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Assignment(room==


                                $room1, room != null, $act2 : activity,&nbsp;<a
                                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  href="http://activity.id/"
                                  target="_blank">activity.id</a>&nbsp;&gt;
                                $id)</font></div>
                            <div><font face="'courier new', monospace"><span
                                  style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Conflict(act1


                                == $act1, act2 == $act2)</font></div>
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                      I would put Conflict first. But try it this way
                      too and let me know which works better ;) I don't
                      know.<br>
                      Stated differently: Instead of checking every 2
                      simultaneous assignments if they are a conflict,<br>
                      I would check if every 2 conflict assignments are
                      simultaneous (like in examinationScoreRules.drl).
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                  <div>Ok! I will perform some stress tests to verify
                    which one works better.</div>
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            Nice, please report your results to this mailing list. It
            doesn't matter if they are worse, better or equal: it's
            interesting to know.<br>
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            Look for "stepLimit" in the examples to see how I do very
            short stress tests when adding extra constraints.<br>
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        <div>I've made a test with each model limited to 70 steps. I've
          attached a graph comparing both runs using drools planner
          benchmark.&nbsp;</div>
        <div>It &nbsp;seems that using Conflict first is indeed faster :)</div>
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With kind regards,
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