Github user greghogan commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2564
The advantage to joining on vertex values before the grouped cross is that
the number of projected vertices is quadratic in the vertex degree. The
projected graphs will usually be much larger than the bipartite graph.
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