Ma/improve solves #46
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The key change is tweaks to the branchers to avoid some pathological cases with complex problems.
Choosing the package_versions variable to be INT_VAR_SIZE_MIN causes us to spend a large amount of time permuting variables that don't generate many propagations. Switching that to INT_VAR_DEGREE_MAX causes the solver to focus on the most 'influential' package versions first.
Also included are some refactors; a cleanup to avoid segfaulting with the new timer code.
Finally there's preliminary support for the GIST solve visualization tool; that was very helpful to tune the branchers.