[Soot-list] Dexpler

[Alexandre Bartel]

Hi Saswat,

Thank you for your feedback!

I have updated the printDbg() method so that it computes a string only
if the debug flag is on.

Thanks!
/Alex

On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 22:46 -0700, Saswat Anand wrote:
> I tried Dexpler on about two hunderd apk's. In ~90% of the APK's,
> Dexpler/soot generates useful .class files. By useful, I mean I can
> run some Chord-based static analysis on those class file. This success
> rate of Dexpler is very impressive. Thanks to the Dexpler authors for
> sharing the tool. 
> 
> 
> While using it, I noticed the following performance problem in the
> Dexpler code.
> 
> 
> In soot.dexpler.DexBody class, there are multiple calls as the
> following, which get executed for each method of each class.
> 
> 
> Debug.printDbg(""+(Body)jBody);
> 
> 
> 
> The type of jBody is soot.jimple.JimpleBody. The result of the above
> call is that the entire body is prettyprinted to a String even when
> the debug file is *not* set and thus, the pretty-printed string never
> gets used. 
> 
> Saswat
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