[Soot-list] [McLab] Question about McSAF merge

[Bodden, Eric]

Hi all.

Another reason not mentioned yet is that this makes Soot's API consistent with that of flowTrough, which also has an "out" parameter. And for flowThrough this makes a lot of sense for performance reasons: you want to avoid creating lots of short-lived set objects, so it's probably better to have them passed in and then just clear them. In general, this pattern reduces pressure on the garbage collector.

Eric