Re: [igraph] Chained operations

[Gábor Csárdi]

The idea is nice, but it makes things quite difficult, so I don't
think that we will have this feature.
Can you give me two or three specific examples when this would be
useful? If there are some important use cases, then I will think about
it.

Gabor

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Chris Wj<address@hidden> wrote:
> What do you guys think about the idea of chaining operations that leverage
> common calculations. Say, for example, that you had 2 algorithms that
> required shortest paths to be calculated before continuing, if you run them
> both from scratch, they both calculate shortest paths first, then thier own
> calculations. So shortest paths gets computed twice (and that is an
> expensive calculation!). So what if you could either chain operations, or
> hold on to the intermediate calculation until the graph structure actually
> changed ("dirty bit").
>
> Also, what algorithms are similar enough to one another that we could avoid
> duplicate work by performing them simultaneously?
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