[Soot-list] Bytecode generated by Soot

[Patrick Lam]

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Eric Bodden wrote:
> Hi Mario.
> 
> In general it could be faster or slower. I think in general you won't
> see much of a difference at all, though. I don't think that anybody
> has ever studied that. From what I remember, Soot applies some few
> optimizations by default, so probably the code would rather run a
> little faster than slower.

I have a better answer than Eric's. :)

Our CC 2000 paper investigated the effect of processing bytecode through
Soot. The results are ancient these days, but they may give you some
insight as to what's going to happen. I expect that today's JITs are
going to subsume whatever might get done at Soot level, so that it's
probably the case that no matter what input code you give the Java VM,
you'll get similar performance. But I have no data backing that up.

http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/publications/papers/#cc2000

pat
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