Gadfly.jl VS Graphs.jl

I haven't heard anything about that. They had their latest release in October, 2021 according to GitHub (but I don't follow it very closely, so maybe they have mentioned somewhere that they are winding down?).

Next I tried a parallel BFS, but hit two issues: early stopping threads is hard, and the overhead of threads seems significant compared to the tiny amount of work each thread can do before either synchronising or ending. So that wasn't going to get me the gains I needed, and besides, the exploration had revealed a much more lucrative approach - frontiers! By only considering the search frontier, I could easily make sure each node was unique, which made a huuuuuuge difference to run time.

Getting started with Graph libraries is always a great way to get a feel for the approachability of a language ecosystem. Got thrown in a web dead-end by some links to old libraries, but once I found Graphs.jl it was pretty smooth sailing. The precious examples were sufficient if not bountiful, but I appreciate examples are hard for such generic libraries.

There is the rebooted version https://github.com/JuliaGraphs/Graphs.jl.

It seems LightGraphs is now being continued as Graphs, which is different from the original Graphs package that LightGraphs was made to be an alternative of? Not sure what that's about tbh.