Re: [graphviz-interest] Performance - number of ranks

"Emden R. Gansner" <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:54:35 -0400
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On 8/28/14, 5:52 AM, paul womack wrote:
> Is this the expected performance relationship? 
Try running dot -v to see where the time is spent. Without further data, 
I'm guessing the problem is in crossing
minimization. If you have a lot of ranks, and a lot of reasonably 
disjoint paths going from the top to the bottom
(which I'm guessing you would in a genealogy graph), there are going to 
be a lot of dummy vertices introduced
every place an edge crosses a rank. This can cause the number of nodes 
to explode, to the detriment of the time
it takes to try to unwind the edges.

     Emden

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