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To me the main benefit of GraphViz is to be able output programmatically generate the graph and render it. I've often used it to debug algorithimic issues. It d
by Pet_Ant 3y ago
To me the main benefit of GraphViz is to be able output programmatically generate the graph and render it. I've often used it to debug algorithimic issues. It does sometimes randomly segfault of really large graphs.
That said it's nice, that it's an option for people.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoBack in the summer of 1999, I interned at DEC SRC working on a Java compiler for the Alpha. My mentor for the project, Sanjay Ghemawat (Jeff Dean's co-author on the MapReduce paper a few years later) wowed me with his use of GraphViz to output trees for each stage of compiler output. Since then, I've used this technique heavily (I have no idea if he was the first to do that, I just never saw it before then).