RE: Incremental Callgraph built

[Eric Bodden <eric@bodden.de>]

Hi again! Has really nobody done any work on that field before? I would be
very grateful for any hints...


> I am currently investigating the possibility of developing a 
> static approximation that helps to optimize weaving of a 
> cflow statement in AspectJ. For this purpose one would need a 
> partial call graph giving the transitive closure of all 
> outgoing calls of a certain method. So far no problem - apart 
> from efficiency. As I know the call graph analysis is 
> typically very slow, especially when it comes to VTA or even 
> more. So is there anybody who ever considered or even tried 
> to implement kind of an incremental approach for building 
> call graphs, meaning that e.g. if only one class is changed, 
> only the edges touching this very class are recalculated?
> Or are there even problems that I did not think about which 
> might make that impossible?


Cheers,
Eric