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Is your feature related to a problem? Please describe it.
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The currently implementation of FVA within cobrapy is generally slow (definitely improved using the processes flag. Would be nice to see the current progress since the program sometimes seems stalled for large networks. What say? I was planning on using tqdm within variability.py at line 247.
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