Layers/depth seem non-optimal

[henkjan-sneller]

While plotting a machine generated network I noticed that the order of nodes matters (for the layer assignment) while it should not AFAICT.

For example 2:5,0:1,4:5,0:3 yields:

While 2:5,4:5,0:1,0:3 yields:

and I expected it to be the same as the previous one since the layers and dephts did not change.

Q: is this a bug or a feature?

[brianpursley]

Yes, this is a bug.

It needs some code to "collapse" the network so that there are no unnecessary gaps at any given depth.

[brianpursley]

@henkjan-sneller Thanks for reporting this. It should be fixed by a change I just made.

[HJLebbink]

Thanx!

[brianpursley]

The optimal depth grouping has been fixed, but it seems within a single depth, the comparators are still not organized as well as they could be.

So maybe there is still some work that can be done to improve this.