I will present Junet — a new package for network analysis that seeks to be a fast and hackable alternative to mainstream network analysis libraries like NetworkX, igraph, and graph-tool. Unlike other Julia packages, it allows to quickly traverse and modify the graphs as well as to associate the attributes with their nodes and edges. I will discuss the data structures implemented in Junet and showcase how specific Julia's features allow to make them efficient. For example, thanks to parametric types it is possible to shrink the memory consumed by Junet to a fraction of what other libraries require. And conjunction of multiple dispatch with just-in-time compilation allows to optimize some methods based on the specific types they operate on, sometimes eliminating the computation altogether. The talk will also overview things that are experimental and don't work so well like creating zero-cost iterators and parallelizing loops. Finally, I will present the benchmarks comparing Junet with state-of-the-art libraries for network analysis.
