[Soot-list] Asm front end performance

[Eric Bodden]

> That's awesome to hear.

Indeed!

> I have no time to look into this until next week, but maybe Eric will
> have some time. I'll look over the code carefully as well.

I am generally fine with the ASM part of the patch but there are other
changes to Soot that break backward compatibility. That's an issue for
me. Will need to evaluate further... But yes Patrick, please you take
a look, too. (Further discussion on Github.)

Eric