[Nauty-list] Version 2.4 beta 3 is available

[Paul T. Darga]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 11:17:42PM +1100, Brendan McKay wrote:
> 3. Two different data structures for graphs are supported.  In addition
>    to the traditional packed representation, a sparse representation is
>    also available. It offers considerable advantages if the number of
>    edges is comparatively small. Currently sparse representation is not
>    available in dreadnaut so is mostly of interest to programmers
>    (but see the -S option in labelg).  More on this later.

I'm curious about the sparse representation.  Does it use any
different algorithms/optimizations besides those discussed in my DAC
'04 presentation?

Paul

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