Support Bounded Multi-Source Shortest Path for faster sparse graphs

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
postgresql
Domain
backend, databases

Research direction

The issue references an academic paper on a new shortest-path algorithm. Research would start by reading the linked arXiv paper to understand the algorithm, then examining the existing pgRouting codebase for shortest-path implementations (likely in src/). Determine how to integrate a new algorithm, considering PostgreSQL extension constraints and performance testing. 'Done' would be a working implementation with benchmarks against existing methods.

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Description

Functionality Request

Just raising an issue to see if its worth adding another algorithm that was recently published: Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.17033

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