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Show HN: NetworkX and pyarrow = 6-7x memory savings
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- Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Fork 3.6k Star 17.3k pyarrow backend #8933 adsharma started this conversation in Ideas pyarrow backend #8933 adsharma Sep 30, 2026 · 0 comments Return to top Discussion options Uh oh!
- adsharma Sep 30, 2026 https://github.com/Ladybug-Memory/networkx/tree/pyarrow This branch contains a new backend that consumes 6.5x less memory vs the default backend.
- Trade off: faster for immutable graphs, but slower for mutable.
- Allows fallback to the default representation if better write performance is desired.
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