[whatyesaid]

It's a research paper. You can write a theoretical paper and let others apply it practically, which others can figure out the practical aspect and report results of benchmarks, or others can also build on the theory.

This paper only has 2 authors. The other solvers are probably applying technique specific tricks and speedups, and you're working with approximate optimization, it's not that easy to move everything over.

[hdesh]

> This paper only has 2 authors.

So? I don't get the relevance of the author count.

[black_puppydog]

It's quite easy to go tell other people what they should do with their time.

These researchers are in the business of improving algorithms. Implementing them in large industrial (or open source) code bases in a maintainable way -- and then actually maintaining that code -- is a different skillset, a different set of interestes, and as was pointed out, besides the point.

Either you believe their results, then be grateful. Someone (yoU!) can implement this. Or you don't. In which case, feel free to move on.

Your tone comes off as entitled.