[Soot-list] Speeding up soot in whole-program mode ?

[Chris Pickett]

Guillaume Salagnac wrote:

> But anyway, it seems that loading the jimple is not faster than parsing 
> bytecode, so I gave up this approach. That's why there is no emergency 
> in fixing this bug.
> 
> 
> I was hoping that parsing the jimple would speed up soot's execution, 
> because some phases are not useful anymore : the jimple locals are 
> already there, already typed, etc. But I was wrong, as I discovered 
> later.
> 
> 
> Is there such a way to reduce the execution time when working whith 
> .jimple source, for example by ommiting some soot phases, like jimple 
> typing, and so on ? Obviously, if the jimple is already built, it is not 
> useful to do it a second time...

Hmmm... why don't you look into object serialization?  Maybe you could 
use a dummy non-Soot application as a quick proof-of-concept.

Chris