Kevin R. Thornton

> Nothing stopping you doing it within fwdpp! Whichever way we end up encoding things for the canonical representation, internally it could make a lot of sense to have an...

> In terms of simplification then, each chromosome would be simplified separately, but with respect to the same set of nodes. I'm not certain of this, but I think this...

I think that this is right, at least with the way that we have been thinking about the problem. EDIT: if you give up some things, specifically non-sample nodes meaning...

@bhaller -- can you distinguish time in `qsort` from time in `sort_tables`? The latter is actually a copy-qsort-copy.

no, that makes sense. thanks.

Different comparison functions are probably not too hard to do in the sorting. One challenge is that you'd need to introduce another one for all the left/right tracking business. That...

> I think you all are thinking about this, but if you simplify each chromosome separately, we'll have to do an extra "merge" step at the end to ensure that...

> > > I think you all are thinking about this, but if you simplify each chromosome separately, we'll have to do an extra "merge" step at the end to...

Definitely seems like `None` or `Inf` would be better here. I'm guessing it is a -1 being passed off as an array index for Tree somewhere.

Not enough info. That is an old distro, so we need the compiler version. You may also be able to test on Travis?