id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	revision
297	Graph and map serializer	Alpar Juttner	Alpar Juttner	"For real distributed computing, it would be nice to have a ''serializer'' for the graphs and the map structures.

By a ''serializer'' I mean a facility to represent a graph/map as a compact raw sequence of bytes that can be sent to another (local or remote) process and the graph/map can be reconstructed from it.

The raw data format should be compact and easy to code and decode, however it cannot be independent from the underlying graph representation, as we must keep the node/arc IDs at the graph reconstruction.

This proposal is somewhat related to #225."	enhancement	new	major	LEMON 1.5 release	core	hg main