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max_function_evaluations

Number of function evaluations allowed for optimizers

## Topics

This keyword is related to the topics:

- method_independent_controls

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): INTEGER

Default: 1000

## Description

The maximum number of function evaluations is used as a stopping criterion for optimizers. If it has not reached any other stopping criteria first, the optimizer will stop after it has performed `max_function_evalutions` evaluations. See also `max_iterations`.

Some optimizers (e.g. `ncsu_direct`) may run past this limit in the course of an iteration step that began before `max_function_evaluations` was exceeded.

Default Behavior

Default value is 1000.