[Symphony] Dramatic performance drop since 5.1.10

[Ted Ralphs]

We could try to provide a single parameter for backwards compatibility
after major upgrades like this. It's a nice idea, but may or may not
be easy to do, depending on the change. In all of this, the big issue
is time. No one wants to spend it on documentation, but we try our
best :).

Ted

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Michael Hennebry
<hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>  On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Ted Ralphs wrote:
>> This is unfortunate, but not actually too surprising. In 5.2, we added
>
>> degrading performance on smaller instances. In any case, it should be
>> relatively easy to replicate the performance of 5.1 with customized
>> parameter settings.
>
> Perhaps it would be useful to always explictly
> and compactly state what the defaults are.
> At each new release, state what options have to
> be given to get what used to be the defaults.
>
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