Notes for SoPlex Release 1.2.0

What's new
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 - Big code cleanup (no more warnings, mostly ;-) 
 - All code should now be ANSI C++ (whatever this exactly means) 
   and should compile on most compilers
 - No more TCL, lex, yacc and C
 - New MPS and LPF format loading routines 
 - Everything is contained in the namespace "soplex"
 - Extended HTML documentation now generated with doxygen
 - Extended example (command line solver) program
 - Test scripts to run the Netlib up and down
 

Remarks
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We have tested this version heavily, but not against 1.1.
This means, we know neither if it is slower or faster nor 
if it is more or less stable then 1.1. 

As you can see if you look at the TODO section of the documentation,
there are a lot of things left to do. For this reason and because 
we changed a lot of code we regard this version BETA.


Performance Baseline
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Here are some timing/error results for the check target. 
These are not verified and should only be considered a hint what to expect.
All runs where with the OPT=opt version, everything on default, times
in the LC/EC column are in seconds.
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CPU          OS      COMP           LC   EC Fails 
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P4/1.7       Linux   GNU 2.95.3    594  550 greenbea(ER)
AMD XP1800+  Linux   GNU 3.0.3     643  624 greenbea(ER),pilot(ER)
AMD 1000     Linux   Intel 5.0.1   937  913 greenbea(ER)
EV67/833/4   Linux   Compaq 6.3    543  507 greenbea(ER),greenbeb(LR) 
EV67/833/4   Linux   GNU 2.96      570  652 greenbea(LR),pilot-ja(LR) 
EV67/750/8   Tru64   Compaq 6.4    523  510 greenbeb(ER),pilot87(ER),pilot(LR)
EV67/750/8   Tru64   GNU 2.95.2    547  629 greenbea(LR),pilot-ja(LR)
PA8600/550/1 HP-UX   HP A.03.27    756  891 greenbea(LR),pilot-ja(LR)
US-IIi/300   Solaris SUN 6U2 5.3  2495 2499 greenbea(ER),greenbeb(ER)
R5000/180    IRIX    SGI 7.3.1.1  6224 7024 greenbea(LR),pilot-ja(LR)
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The fails on pilot where only regarding accuracy, probably the result
is within the selected delta (1e-6) per variable, but accumulates.