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Re: Why two threads in Soot?



Hi Jooyong,

Jooyong Lee <jlee@brics.dk> wrote:
> I am starting to read the tutorial about "goto instrumenter", and come 
> to wonder why two threads are calling "internalTransform" method, which 
> appears to make it hard to control the transformation. Anybody would 
> like to give me an answer?

I think it is just a precaution.  If your code is single-threaded,
then of course only one thread will be calling the transformation.

I would guess most Soot analyses assume they are being called by a
single thread in general and are not as considerate.  :)

Cheers,
Navin.