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constant_penalty

Use a simple weighted penalty to manage feasibility

## Specification

Alias: none

Argument(s): none

Default: algorithm dynamically adapts the constraint penalty

## Description

Finally, constraint infeasibility can be managed in a somewhat more sophisticated manner than the simple weighted penalty function. If the `constant_penalty` specification is used, then the simple weighted penalty scheme described above is used. Otherwise, the constraint penalty is adapted to the value `constraint_penalty/L`, where L is the the smallest step length used so far.