Soot-1.beta.4 released.

[Raja Vallee-Rai <rvalleerai@sable.mcgill.ca>]

Hello soot-list subscribers,


A new version of Soot has been released!  The notable improvements are:

1. Grimp, an aggregated Jimple has been added to Soot. This is a
medium-high level intermediate representation which
allows you to manipulate statements as trees instead of 3-address code.
This is particularly useful for code generation and
decompilation. 

2. The code produced by Soot from Jimple code (by first converting it to
Grimp code) has been substantially improved. We
are now 2 to 3 percent away from the original classfile in performance.
(this is without any optimizations performed) 

3. A subroutine duplicator has been installed as a temporary solution
for the jsr bytecode. This means that there is no
concept of the subroutines in the framework and that the classfiles
produced by Soot are 'jsrless'. 

4. The speed of the transformations has been improved. 

5. Numerous bug fixes have been made. 


See http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot for more details.


Best regards,

Raja Vallee-Rai
Sable Research Group