Because you will end up with unwieldly graphs like these: https://twitter.com/chewxy/status/433807908875145216 https://twitter.com/chewxy/status/43380790887514

Because you will end up with unwieldly graphs like these: https://twitter.com/chewxy/status/433807908875145216 https://twitter.com/chewxy/status/433807908875145216 https://twitter.com/chewxy/status/433811541373116416 https://twitter.com/chewxy/status/433811541373116416 This is from an old JITting Javascript engine I wrote in Go... a simple program like this: function clamp(x, min, max) { y = 2 if (x < min) { x = min } else if (x > max) { x = max } return x } can generate pngs that are thousands of pixels wide and high (depending on what the nodesep and ranksep were set). I wish I did think of the visualization that Go uses. That's fantastic compared to graphs