constraint based killer sudoku solver performance improvements
Frank Millman
frank at chagford.com
Fri Jan 27 01:57:10 EST 2012
"Blockheads Oi Oi" <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>I have a working program based on [1] that sets up all different
>constraints for each row, column and box and then sets exact sum
>constraints for each cage. It'll run in around 0.2 secs for a simple
>problem, but a tough one takes 2 hours 45 minutes. I did some research
>into improving the performance and found [2] but can't work out how to
>implement the constraints given. Can someone please help, assuming that
>it's even possible.
>
> [1] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-constraint/1.1
> [2] http://4c.ucc.ie/~hsimonis/sudoku.pdf
I don't have an answer, but are you aware of this -
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/PADS/Sudoku.py
It is a sudoko solver written in pure python.
I don't know what you call a tough problem, but this one solves the hardest
one I have thrown at it in the blink of an eye. It also outputs a full trace
of the reasoning it used to arrive at a solution.
Frank Millman
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