I've been trying to port an application that uses SQLite to use igraph,
because the operations are a better fit for igraph. However, the one thing
where SQLite wins is in fast startup time. The graph in question is based
on a process memory dump, and thus has ~4M nodes and 15M edges. Loading it
into igraph takes ~120 seconds on my laptop (including parsing).

I would like to store that graph in a persistent format, and it seems like
igraph using a memory-mapped file (mmap) would do the trick. Has anyone
attempted that in the past?

To make that change, it seems like changes would be needed in
src/type_indexededgelist.c, and likely to igraph_memory.h (in
igraph_Free/igraph_Realloc/igraph_Calloc).

My C is a bit rusty, and I've never worked on igraph before, but I'm
willing to give this a shot. Has anyone out there tried this before? Is it
a horrible idea? Would others be interested in this change?

Thanks
-Cale
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